[Mapbender-dev] Discussion: Character sets (client encoding)

[Arnulf Christl]

Christoph Baudson wrote:
> This is a proposal to serve UTF-8 encoded HTML pages only. In my opinion 
> there is no need to serve ISO-8859-1 pages.
> 
> All character set conversions (when interacting with a database) could 
> be done in PHP. So the architecture would change from
> 
> client: ISO/UTF8
> server: UTF8
> database: ISO/UTF8
> 
> to
> 
> client: ISO/UTF8
> server: UTF8
> database: ISO/UTF8
> 
> This will simplify things a lot and would make Mapbender less 
> error-prone. If anyone has any reason why we should still serve ISO 
> pages, please step up. I have no idea why we should.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christoph

You confuse me, I cannot see the difference?