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

[Christoph Baudson]

Michael Schulz schrieb:
> Hi,
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>> 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.
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> ok, was too overoptimistic :-)
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>>> 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?
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>> I think Mapbender can explicitly set the encoding in all documents it sends
>> and delivers. In how far is Apache involved?
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> 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.
>   

I meant explicitly sending http headers in PHP. Is this overridden by 
Apache?

Christoph


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