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[3.0] Full UTF8 support

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青山 素子:

--- Quote from: Xarcell on October 05, 2011, 01:09:04 PM ---+1

As it was said, a no brainer.

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It certainly wasn't when SMF 2.0 was being designed. Back then, PHP4 was still widely used (still is in some areas...) and proper Unicode support was difficult to come by without a ton of effort. With the huge move to PHP5 and cleaned up support, it would be silly to not fully support Unicode in a widely-used software.

Dzonny:
+1
It would be easier if new members don't have to deal with charset problems, full utf8 support would fix many possible issues.

Daniel Hofverberg:
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.
 

Nightwish:

--- 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.

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Bad idea.

Seriously, it's 2011. The web should be UTF-8 only. Period. 7/8bit character sets are a relict of ancient days and should die. They are among the most annoying things a developer has to deal with - Unicode makes things so much easier. Time to move on and forget old habits.

Fustrate:

--- 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.
 

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Do you have a reason for preferring it, or do you just not want to change? Honest question.

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