Hi, i'm "speaking" with a french library that is highly interested by Koha, but needs absolutely UNICODE support. They ask me what wil it "cost" to add unicode support. They may involve a developper to add this, (or maybe fund). Does anyone have an opinion on this ? Do we have to use utf16 or is utf8 possible ? 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 ? Thanks for more infos -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
On 2004-10-12 09:07:09 +0100 Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
* rewrite all templates in utf
This much is straightforward: iconv could do much of the legwork, as could html tidy.
* 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)
Some of the scripts have latin1 characters in them. This has bitten me before, as you may remember. There may also be some functions that we cannot use in the same way in a larger character set, but I've not done enough perl internationalisation work that I know for sure.
* dump non utf DB & reload it in utf (specifis pragmas in mySQL) * other things ?
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