On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:10:51PM +0200, Petko Yotov wrote: > > It would be very cool if we could find a good way to seamlessly > > convert existing iso-8859-1 and other sites to using utf-8 > > (with the option to remain iso-8859-1 for those that want it). > > There is the iconv program on most unix platforms that can do this, and also > the PHP iconv() function.
Lots of PHP installations don't have iconv() available, so we can't rely on it. > I also feel (like jdd), that UTF-8 is a good thing, it is the best choice for > new installations, especially for multilanguage sites, especially now that > PmWiki has a much better support (AsSpaced, case insensitive search). > MediaWiki, and DocuWiki, the other most popular php-wikis, are shipped with > UTF-8 by default. I'm totally in agreement that UTF-8 would be better, especially for new sites. We just need a good migration path for sites that are currently running with something other than UTF-8, so that someone who upgrades doesn't find that their site has completely broken. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
