On Dec 13, 2004, at 1:10, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:02:24AM +0000, Tom Insam wrote:
CGI::Wiki (recent versions therof) isn't fully supportive of all charsets, but I don't care, because the only charset worth caring about is utf-8, and it does that.
I assume you are taking about mixing charsets in the same database? We *do* need to support different charsets in different databases - it is not okay to mandate utf8 everywhere at the moment, IMO.
Why not?
If the latter, we would presumably need to patch CGI::Wiki (I was expecting a handful of fixes needed there anyway, to tell the database what charset to use and so on).
Well, assuming you want 'utf-8' and 'lots of single-byte encodings', it'll probably work fine now. But yes, explicit support would be better.
You'll need perl 5.8 upwards, though. It shouldn't be a lot of work over that to make OG do it - DBI tends to be the real annoyance with these things.
*nod*. We do need to try and keep upgrade paths stable and not lock people with older systems out completely.
They get latin-1 and live with it, then.