In article <416B90AD.2040402@free.fr>, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
Does anyone have an opinion on this ? Do we have to use utf16 or is utf8 possible ?
certainly UTF8. UTF16 would be very unnatural and (for most Unices) very difficult to work with.
For me, it means : * rewrite all templates in utf * parse all perl scripts for unicode support (what does it means exactly ? i'm not sure. chapter 15 of Perl Programming is not enough for me) * dump non utf DB & reload it in utf (specifis pragmas in mySQL) * other things ?
In article <200410121414.i9CEEd1x032673@alma.athenscounty.lib.oh.us>, Owen Leonard <oleonard@athenscounty.lib.oh.us> wrote:
* rewrite all templates in utf
This much is straightforward: iconv could do much of the legwork, as could html tidy.
What would specifically be involved in rewriting the templates? -- changing the encoding in the document head (adding an xml prologue would be the most correct way of doing this, but this causes display problems in Internet Explorer. The recommended method at present is to use <meta http-equiv="Content- Type"...>)
Just run the templates through iconv and modify the .inc files to have a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"...> header. (You can look at either the Polish or Chinese templates in Koha 2.0 as a reference; both of them are UTF-8.) If you just add a meta tag, both the meta tag and the HTTP header should contain the correct charset information. (If this is not the case, then the CGI script that generates the HTML from the template has a bug and will need to be fixed.)
-- altering the encoding of some characters in the templates? I wonder if this affects the English templates?
iconv should be able to handle this easily; in case it fails somewhere, there are other converters that have better error handling :-)
What else?
If you were using tidy to clean up templates, you'd have to configure it to only alter the character encoding, and not touch the document structure, right?
I think HTML tidy would be overkill, and it will probably become confused by the templating directives. -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@ieee.org> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/