Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Translation (UTF8)

[Ralf Becker]

Guillaume Courtois wrote:
> > About UTF8. I think it would be fine to have all text in phpgw in utf8. Any
> > modern browser does support it and it would make support different languages
> > easier.
>
>
> I'm a little late in responding to that. Sorry ...
>
> There's a change in 0.9.16 for the login part : it now uses the lang table to 
> know
> which charset it should use, depending on the langage of the user. I have made a
> table of charsets based on what I have found on internet, I can't remember 
> exactly
> what is inside but if I'm correct most of the charsets are in utf8 already ...

Thats not completly right. utf8 (unicode) includeds most of the symbols 
of the other charsets, BUT the representation of that sysmbols is 
different. So you can't just change the charset phrase of the lang-file 
to utf8 for all languages. Alle lang-files have to be converted.

An other thought is only *most* of the *modern* browsers understand and 
fully support Unicode. So for most of the european languages we have 
nothing to gain with changeing to unicode, only extra work and maybe 
some probs with older browsers.

Asian languages only work with unicode and do so already in phpGW. They 
can use the english lang-file (which they need) as it contains only 
7-bit standard ASCII chars which have the same representation in Unicode 
as in iso-8859-1 (their translation of charset).

To be able to make a new translation you have to do the following steps:
1) Translate the charset phrase of the langfile in phpgwapi/setup to 
your "new" language.
2) read it into the db
3) change your prefs to use that language
4) ==> now the next page will have the correct charset in its headers, 
so u can start makeing the other translations with the TranslationTools.

Ralf

PS. Maybe we should add this to the wiki ;-)
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