Re: [gNewSense-users] Cyrillic presentation in gNS wiki

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz schreef:
> > I also stumbled upon some interesting comments to consider before
> > using UTF-8 (in scripts/xlpage-utf-8.php):
> >
> >      This script configures PmWiki to use utf-8 in page content and
> >      pagenames.  There are some unfortunate side effects about PHP's
> >      utf-8 implementation, however.  First, since PHP doesn't have a
> >      way to do pattern matching on upper/lowercase UTF-8 characters,
> >      WikiWords are limited to the ASCII-7 set, and all links to page
> >      names with UTF-8 characters have to be in double brackets.
> >      Second, we have to assume that all non-ASCII characters are valid
> >      in pagenames, since there's no way to determine which UTF-8
> >      characters are "letters" and which are punctuation.
>
> That sounds like a problem.
> Guess we'll have to look into encodings that are not utf-8.
> I have a test wiki here, but its a different version to the current
> live site (i'll need to setup a copy of the live site pre testing all
> these settings out).
> kk

So you want to separate the wiki into parts with different encoding? 
Sounds like about as much trouble as moving to utf-8 with it's problems. 
I guess it also depends on whether those issues could break the wiki or 
merely be an inconvenience.