FYI: All new languages (PmWikiXx) added from now on will have the UTF-8 encoding forced so that the former difficulties with broken characters should not happen. UTF-8 is actually enabled on all PmWikiXx wikigroups that don't already use another encoding.
I *think* existing groups should be unchanged, but if you notice some strange characters or question marks in a group that used to work fine, tell me (I may have forgotten some). Petko On Tuesday 28 December 2010 02:14:34, Petko Yotov wrote : > On Monday 27 December 2010 12:19:14, Peter Bowers wrote : > > I'm in process of translating PmWiki into shqip and having some > > difficulties with special characters. > > ... > > > Obviously this has something to do with character sets and the whole > > UTF-8 thing, but I'm kind of hazy on this whole area... > > Sigh. Indeed I should improve this. :-( > > On pmwiki.org and on a clean default installation, if you haven't called > xlpage-utf-8.php, and if you haven't loaded an XLPage defining an encoding, > then Latin-1 is assumed and used. > > So, when you are about to create the XLPage and paste your special > characters that are outside of the Latin-1 charset, Mozilla browsers > submit them as unicode HTML-entities. (I'm not sure what other browsers > do: if they submit your text characters, they may well become question > marks when saved.) > > But when you save the page, if the page sets the utf-8 encoding then the > next load is in utf-8. You no longer need HTML-entities, they are more > difficult or even impossible to edit in non-latin languages. > > Catch 22. > > > (1) How *should* I have done the above? Different order, different > > steps, what? > > *You* shouldn't have to do it differently, *I* should fix it so that it > doesn't behave this way. > > Currently you could edit the XLPage, set only the entry > 'xlpage-i18n' => 'utf-8', > > save the page, and after that re-edit and fill in all the translations. > > If a PmWikiXx/XLPage doesn't exist, pmwiki.org should now assume the UTF-8 > encoding which supports all characters from all languages. > > > (2) How can I get the text from PmWikiSq/XLPage now that it's messed up? > > I can copy/paste from my local copy, but if I didn't have that solution > > available what would I do then? > > If pressing the "Back" button on your browser doesn't show the text area as > you submitted it, it is likely that you have to re-type the page. :-) > > Petko > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
