Paul Libbrecht wrote: > > Le 18 janv. 08 à 00:05, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez a écrit : >>> 1 - I already have a good load of content, can I switch to UTF-8 >>> without wrecking the wiki ? >> As far as I understand, all involved actors must run the same encoding. >> It is just a guess, but if your database and your XWiki run with >> different encoding, URLs with characters like á, ñ, or / won't work. > > I haven't tried (and really do not understand why there's anyone on > earth sticking with iso-8859-1 (except for wrongly configured editors > such emacs) but: > I know that the DB-installation instruction say that the DB should be > configured for encoding unicode, so that the java-strings <-> DB is > encoding proof for any encoding. > > XML import is also bullet proof there: the encoding value is written in > the header. > > Where you change encoding is at the front-end (delivery, hence input) > and there, I think you can change this right away, the re-encoding > happens in java in all cases, to any encoding. > > My 2p. > > paul >
Hi, I agree with you that 8859-1 is not the best encoding for a default, and that UTF-8 should be the default if we want to see XWiki used in non-USA/Western Europe countries. However, changing the encoding is not as simple as you say. The most important things, external to XWiki, are: - By default, some databases are configured in latin1 (like mySql). Setting the database to utf8 is something the system administrator must do, as we cannot specify it from XWiki. We could specify the encoding of each table, IF hibernate supported this. But it does not, so not even that is possible. - The JVM uses the system encoding, if not manually specified. And almost all operating systems are configured for 8859-1, maybe except those that can be found in Asian countries. And all strings written are by default converted to the system encoding, unless we override the default. And changing the default JVM encoding, again, is something we cannot do. We have an issue for overriding the initial encoding from the platform with the one specified in xwiki.cfg or web.xml, but it is not implemented yet. (I did it locally, but the code wasn't nice, so I had to postpone this fix until I find a better solution). We are planning to switch to UTF by default, but there are several changes needed in the platform. And more important, we need a lot of testing to make sure that nothing gets broken by this change. Chances are it will work, as I have setup several sites using UTF-8, and nobody reported problems until now. (There were several problems, but they have been fixed already). Sergiu _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
