+1 Thanks, Eduard
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > We've moved more and more toward an UTF-8-only application, and XWiki > > has only been tested with this configuration for several years. > > > > I propose that we require UTF-8 for a valid, supported installation. > > This means: > > - JVM encoding (-Dfile.encoding=UTF8) > > - Container default URL encoding (Tomcat has ISO-8859-1 by default) > > - Database encoding (MySql is still configured with latin1 on some > distros) > > > > There's one big site to update on our side: xwiki.org. > > > > Here's my +1. This is a move toward a future web, since more and more > > standards require (or at least assume as a default) UTF-8. > > > > > > > > After thinking a bit more, it would make sense to require a valid > > Unicode encoding, including UTF-16, which is preferable in countries > > that don't use a latin alphabet. However, XWiki doesn't currently work > > under 16-bit encodings at all. > > -- > > Sergiu Dumitriu > > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
