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[3.0] Full UTF8 support

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Daniel Hofverberg:
As the rest of my web site is using ISO-8859-1, using UTF-8 for just the forum would cause problems with the integration. That would make SSI.php and other aspects a pain to deal with, unless changing the character set on the entire site. I also don't see any specific need for UTF-8 on my site, as all characters I need to use for the Swedish language is present in Latin1.
 
As my site consist of closer to 1000 pages, moving the entire site over to UTF-8 with no real benefit doesn't really sound too pleasing...
 

Fustrate:
I believe there are PHP functions for converting between character sets, though I don't use them often enough to remember their names.

Found it, though: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

You'd just use that on anything from the forum, to convert from UTF8 to ISO-8859-1

青山 素子:

--- Quote from: Daniel Hofverberg on October 11, 2011, 03:54:45 AM ---Of course it's preferable with full UTF-8 support for those that do want it. However, I do not want to be forced to use UTF-8, as I prefer good old ISO-8859-1.

--- End quote ---

Could be worse, it could be windows-1252 (ugh).



--- Quote from: Daniel Hofverberg on October 11, 2011, 05:10:21 AM ---I also don't see any specific need for UTF-8 on my site, as all characters I need to use for the Swedish language is present in Latin1.

--- End quote ---

Then you shouldn't see a difference, actually. The only possible issues would be with characters outside Latin-1 like the "smart quote" and such. Heck, you could probably send your Latin1 pages as UTF8 without any changes as HTML entities would still work the same way for characters.

spiros:
I could not agree more. There are so many mods which do not support UTF-8 and one has to hack them in order to work in a UTF-8 forum. This should NOT be happening.

Kindred:
well, that would be a MOD problem, not an SMF issue....

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