On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:00:09PM +0000, Hans wrote: > > So, what I'm seeing at the moment is that if we switch to using > > utf8 by default, admins of existing sites have to be notified > > somehow that the default has changed and told how to configure > > the site to continue using iso-8859-1, or given a procedure to > > somehow convert the site's pages to utf8. And once someone > > starts the utf8 conversion, it can get a bit messy to try to > > convert back. > > > > Any thoughts on the overall process, how much of an impact a move > > like this might have on existing sites, or how we might go about this? > > I don't know what is involved to configure a wiki to iso-8859-1, > but could an upgrade be smart enough to see that the wiki is using > this standard and switch to it, without an admin having to do > anything?
I agree this would be best, but I haven't figured out a nice reliable way to do it. Part of the challenge is that the choice of utf-versus-iso needs to happen before many other configuration or recipe items take place. Ideally it should occur even before farmconfig.php is loaded. > Also a new install should allow the option to use iso or utf. Well, certainly -- all new installs always allow the option to choose any language or feature. The question is simply which should be the default, and if there's a way to manage it, I'd prefer that all new installs simply default to utf8, and not confront a newbie admin with a choice they aren't likely to understand. Besides, I expect that very few new sites will consciously choose iso-8859-1 over utf8 -- the main reason it's an issue now is because of the need to support existing installations. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
