Re: [BackupPC-devel] Testing 3.0.0cvs

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Guillaume Filion writes:

> Yep, that did the trick, I just added
> binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
> on top of cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin and it looks like everything works.

Unfortunately I don't think the file names will display correctly with
a utf8 output filter (unless they are just ascii).  I need to figure
out the right way to handle both file names and the language strings.

> So I'd prefer to allow each language file to specify their own charset.
>
> That's what would be easier for me, but I'm not sure if that's what 
> would be best for the project. To be fair, I'm not even sure if 
> switching to utf8 is a good idea. I had written a long and somewhat 
> off-topic rant about this, but I'll refrain from posting it right now. 
> I'll keep thinking about unicode and read comments from others before 
> giving a final opinion.

To avoid more runtime conversion, how about makeDist converts
the language files when a release is created?  The drawback is
that when you edit a non-utf8 language file for development you
will need to manually run iconv to see the changes correctly.

Craig