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

Christoph Baudson christoph.baudson at wheregroup.com
Wed Jul 16 10:41:17 EDT 2008


Arnulf Christl schrieb:
> 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?

neither do I.

Here's what I meant

client: UTF8
server: UTF8
database: ISO/UTF8

Christoph

nr: copy and paste for beginners

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