[Phpgroupware-developers] RE: utf-8 vs iso-8859-1

[Sigurd Nes]

> From: Dave Hall address@hidden
> Sent: 2006-02-23 14:51:57 CET
> To: Sigurd Nes address@hidden
> Cc: phpGroupWare Developers address@hidden
> Subject: Re: SV: utf-8 vs iso-8859-1
> 
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:43 +0100, Sigurd Nes wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 12:50 +0100, Sigurd Nes wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:08 +0100, Sigurd Nes wrote:
> > 
> > OK - converting and import of database went well (saved the dump as unicode 
> > from gedit).
> > The unicode ODBC-driver is working - which means all is well in M$access
> > phpPgAdmin seems to have no problem with the converted database.
> > The (test) phpgroupware seems to behave (and look) as usual
> 
> I am sorry for the bumps along the way, I never thought this would be
> completely painless, except for arrogant people like myself who rely
> solely on ascii chars.  Are you now happy with the transition?  Can you
> live with using unicode now?
> 
> I think we should include some notes for people upgrading in the release
> notes too.  It would be best if people run the dump and reimport before
> install new langs etc.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 

The transition is fine by me (and I have found the encoding selector in the 
open file dialog - which I after all only need for lang files).

Regards

Sigurd