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Full utf-8 support

Started by gog, January 27, 2006, 09:23:29 AM

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gog

January 27, 2006, 09:23:29 AM
Hi,

first of all, is there maybe an official developers comment on making utf-8 the default bord encoding?

Making utf-8 the default character set in my point of view should be on the top of the priorities for SMF.

I know there are a lot of issues related to utf-8, but I believe you know how important this is for non-english forums.

I would be glad to help makeing this thing work as expected, but I would also like to know what are the main problems in acchieving this goal?

Some of the things that need to be done, to make this work are:


  • change the collation of the database
    - "SET NAMES utf8" query after connecting to the database, just don't which mysql version started supporting this?
  • rewrite string manipulation function
    - non english characters take more than 1 byte in a string, up to 4 characters max
  • change the template to provide correct encoding in the <head> of the html page

Is there maybe something I'am missing, or this is all?

Thantos

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January 27, 2006, 09:29:34 AM
UTF-8 support is currently being worked on.

gog

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January 27, 2006, 09:46:10 AM
If you need help beta-testing & stuff, please do contact me, I'm not on the forums often, but I would really like to give something back to the community.

Also, I have more than basic PHP skills, and spent to many hours making web application work in UTF-8, so I believe maybe I can be of some help...

Cheers..
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