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

[Christoph Baudson]

Michael Schulz schrieb:
> Christoph,
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> I think that makes perfect sense. This would mean no UTF-8/ISO
> decision in mapbender.conf, no two data sqls...
>   

I would love to abandon the database option "ISO" as well, but I think 
we still need it. I was just referring to the client side encoding.

> It'll only require to set the webservers character set to UTF8 also?
> Could this be a potential problem, e.g. with other software running on
> the same server?
>   

I think Mapbender can explicitly set the encoding in all documents it 
sends and delivers. In how far is Apache involved?

> Just playing devil's advocat, I think we'll eliminate a lot of
> problmes with that.
>
> Cheers, Michael
>   

Christoph

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> 2008/7/16 Christoph Baudson <christoph.baudson at wheregroup.com>:
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>> Arnulf Christl schrieb:
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>>> 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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