[Webcollab-announce] WebCollab Unicode 1.62 Release

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hi all

Pleased to announce the release of WebCollab Unicode 1.62.  This is a
complementary UTF-8 (Unicode) version to match WebCollab 1.62a
(Canopus).

Like most other web-based software, the default WebCollab uses the
ISO-8859-x character set.  This works well for Western European
originated languages, but has two major disadvantages:

 - Each ISO-8859-x character set only works for a narrow set of
languages.  For instance, German and Bulgarian use ISO-8859-1 and
IS0-8859-5 respectively, and cannot be mixed.
   
 - Other languages (not originating in Western Europe) have varying
support. 

This package uses the Unicode (UTF-8) character set, which natively
supports over 650
languages, and as such is a 'universal' character set.

The intention is to eventually merge this package into the mainstream
WebCollab source.  However, at present UTF-8 requires very recent
databases (MySQL 4.1) and optional libraries in PHP (mb_strings).

For the mainstream WebCollab: The CVS is currently stabilising towards a
version 1.70 release.  Most translation files will need updating in due
course.

Regards

Andrew Simpson