Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: phpWiki and utf-8/double-byte

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

Do you think it would cause any problems to just commit this change of 
FieldSeparator to '\xff'?

I'm going to leave it this way on my Wiki for a while to see how it 
works out as a permanent change. If this is not a good idea, maybe add 
a check in config.php for CHARSET==utf-8 and set FieldSeparator 
accordingly?

I'm amazed that I'm now able to use UTF-8 (Japanese etc) text in my 
personal wiki, even though my system has only MySQL 3.2.3.49 which does 
not support UTF-8, and is actually configured for iso-8859-1. The last 
time I tried to use UTF-8 in PhpWiki (over a year ago) I had to use 
PostgreSQL, and there were still lots of garbage display problems then.

So far the only (minor) problems I see running PhpWiki CVS in utf-8 are 
the field names on the DebugInfo page and character translation problem 
on the Sign In page.

I'm sure these two minor problems can be worked out, and if anyone 
volunteers to translate we could have Japanese/Chinese localizations 
included with PhpWiki too, the admin would just have to change CHARSET 
to utf-8 in index.php during installation.

Carsten

On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 11:34  am, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> This is hackish, but: you might try changing
> $FieldSeparator to '\xff' (which is an illegal
> byte in UTF-8) or to one of the lesser used ASCII