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#3091 Unicode support for occidental languages
Webmin supports unicode for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but not for occidental languages. It is a problem when you must edit a text file in a server with Unicode locale (which are most modern systems), or when you must work with LDAP: you must set the locale of the web browser to UTF8, and therefore you see weird characters on module titles and labels (specially if you are using any language different form English).
Compiling the language files in Unicode would not be very hard, and would be very useful.
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This might be relatively easy .. do you have any pointers to programs or documentation on converting ascii files to unicode?
I use the iconv program for automated Big5 and GB encoded files to Unicode.
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This utility looks good:
http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html
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Thanks!
Are you interested in just English, or other european languages too?
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I am Spanish, and I like to see "Información del sistema" instead of "System Info". It makes me feel like I am at home... :)
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I think there is no need of re-encoding language files. The problem is not the language files encoding, but its content itself.
I have been looking at the modules' language files, and have found that special characters are not set using HTML 2.0 special character notation, but its ASCII number. For example, acute "a" is "á" instead of "á".
If you changed this to HTML 2.0 special character notation, then the browser would display these characters properly, regardless of the encoding you have set.
I must agree, it's problem in user/group management module (useradmin) too, as GECOS field is several years ago UTF-8 encoded, thus isn't possible manage users in webmin.
Franta Hanzlik (franta@hanzlici.cz)