joomlajon Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Since there are a lot more characters then the a-z alphabet the utf-8 option should be the natural selection, with a legacymode for those not dealing with the utf-8. This since more and more softwares use utf-8, since it solves most problems with characters. Later upgrade to utf-16 is natural if needed, don't know to much about it.http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=269899 I am having problems now that would not exist if it was utf-8. Even if I am the one who are doing everything wrong, it is because there always is questions if it will work or not. I had this struggle with vBulletin before and now I am having it again. And if you want people to switch to ipb from phpbb or smf, there is that charset problems again. Joomla is utf-8 so if you import stuff from the forum it looks bad. RSS feeds looks crappy because of different charsets and so on... vBulletin 4 will be utf-8, they have said at least. So what about IPB 3? Would this be interesting or am I the only one wanting this. In a global world everyone should be able to communicate without using ä /jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Firstly, to note, you can easily change the global charset to utf-8 in your ACP - it's a single setting. Setting that aside, IPB 3 will ship with utf-8 as the default charset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve G. Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 IPS will provide a "character set conversion tool" to convert old "iso-8859-1" databases to "utf-8"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 IPS will provide a "character set conversion tool" to convert old "iso-8859-1" databases to "utf-8"? No, this isn't something we will be providing. Edit - to clarify - this isn't something we plan on providing. I don't want to say "won't be" because things change, but this isn't really within the realm of our software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joomlajon Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Sounds great. I have had som trouble with double utf-8 conversion when setting the tables to utf-8, so latin as is for now. Upgrading to utf-8 will probably have a sollution from someone smarter then me :) /j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve G. Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Okay, thanks for the information Brandon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joomlajon Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Hmmm.. A-Z is the english alphabet. And both ipb and vb has now these alphabets when listing members and so on. I would like to be able to have A- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakerz Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Firstly, to note, you can easily change the global charset to utf-8 in your ACP - it's a single setting. Setting that aside, IPB 3 will ship with utf-8 as the default charset. Will the db driver also do mysql_set_charset("utf8"); or mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); ? IPB 2.0 doesn't do that and it results in some messed up characters in the database even if you set it to utf-8 in the ACP and the collation of the db tables are set to utf8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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