Tim Starling hett schreven: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > >> Hoi, >> Given that we should be moving forward not backward, it makes more sense to >> provide Unicode 5.1 characters and webfonts. >> >> The big thing of MediaWiki was that it supported Unicode when this was still >> a new thing to do. We should support the latest and the best Unicode >> support. >> > > You did read the post didn't you? Forcing everyone to buy Windows 7 is > not generally the way we do things. Unless the client situation is not > as bad as it sounds, we will need to have a transition period where we > support older clients until their market share falls far lower than > 50%, which is where, by Praveen's figures, it is now. > I guess you are both right. To me the best solution seems to be: accept both as input (obviously), normalize everything to 5.1 and store it in that codeset (so our data is consistently 5.1). For output convert it to 5.0 to evade problems with clients not yet ready for 5.1. The advantage is, that our data is stored in the most modern format, but still the clients are served data that they can process. If there are performance problems with the conversion on serving or anything like that, of course storing the data in 5.0 is still good enough. More important than discussing the specific technical details is actually doing it, implementing it.
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