On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:11:51PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:28:50PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori 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. > > > > Yes, I think that a big red label should be in the upgrade > > instructions, with pointer to a recipe or something that explains how > > to convert page text. I don't know about page names, though... :-/ > > [...] > As I mentioned, the steps of the actual conversion aren't all > that difficult -- PHP provides utf8encode and utf8decode functions > that automatically convert between iso-8859-1 and utf-8. > The hard part is knowing _when_ a conversion is needed, and when > things should be left alone.
Actually, as I'm thinking about it, I _might_ be able to reconfigure PageStore to be able to handle the conversions automatically and transparently, on the fly. That could be interesting. But it would definitely be a case of "once you've started saving pages in utf8, you're fairly well committed to using that or later versions of PmWiki to be able to access and view those pages." I may set up a test system on pmwiki.org and see what I come up with. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
