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

[Michael Schulz]

Hi,


>
> 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.

ok, was too overoptimistic :-)

>> 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?

If you define a default character set in apache (AddDefaultCharset)
this overrides all settings set via meta-tags, because apache settings
are in the http-header.

Cheers, Michael


>
>> Just playing devil's advocat, I think we'll eliminate a lot of
>> problmes with that.
>>
>> Cheers, Michael
>>
>
> Christoph
>
>>
>>
>> 2008/7/16 Christoph Baudson <christoph.baudson at wheregroup.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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