#6 Ability to choose character encoding

[per@ruokto.com]

A great feature would be the ability to choose a
site-wide character encoding set. I intend to use
Streamline Server with many sound files that are using
extended characters that demands UTF-8 encoding.

It is rather easy for me to add this information
directly in the theme files. Though, it would be a lot
easier if their could be one global include file, where
you could specify the encoding set. Especially if you
would like to achieve a slipstreamed procedure for
upgrading the system.

[Michael MacFadden]

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Hello,

I am assuming you mean that the meta-info in the file
(vorbis-comment, id3 tags) use the UTF 8 encoding, and that
what you are seeing is a need to set the HTML content
encoding to UTF-8 so that this information gets displayed
correctly.

If this is in fact what you are suggesting then I agree that
this would be a nice feature. Please let me know if I have
gotten this correct. Thanks.

Regards,
Michael MacFadden
Streamline Dev Staff

[per@ruokto.com]

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That is exactly describing my needs, but the need for
encoding-properties also applies to the directory structure
itself. It would be great to be able to have a directory
structure with extended characters, e.g. for beeing able to
spell an artist name or an album name correctly. But that is
another feature-request, because the directory structure
seems to be displayed incorrect even with utf-8-encoding.
(Perhaps it is related to the filesystem itself?).

[Michael MacFadden]

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About the directory structure, I think this partialy depends
on the file system. I know that I have ripped CDs on
windows and copied them to a debian machine with latin-1 as
the default local and the resul of the ls command is a
directory name with funny characthers. This may be a
combination of getting the file system and streamline set up
correctly. I will investigate that as well.

Overall I think your ideas are very good. I will post
information here as it becomes available.