[Pmwiki-users] UTF-8 support

Dave Land land at antsight.com
Mon Jun 30 19:04:09 CDT 2003


Could we use a escape char to proceed the Newline situation. Like 

"B2B2" = "B2"
"B2nn" = "\n"

Maybe we need not to change the old articles.

Land

>The separators can be longer than one character, yes.
>
>I don't have a problem with replacing them with 0xFE or 0xFF sequences
>in PmWiki, but keep in mind that 0xFE and 0xFF are used in the iso-8859-1
>set.  We'd also have to provide a migration path for existing PmWiki
>files that are still using the old \262 character.  $KeepToken and $LinkToken
>are never stored in files as tokens--they're only used as internal markers
>when processing the wiki markup.
>
>Any other comments from people out there?  Would changing the separators
>cause a huge problem for anyone?
>
>Pm
>
>
>On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:04:34PM +0300, Serge Semashko wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Is it possible to make UTF-8 support in PmWiki?
>> 
>> I can change "charset=iso-8859-1" to "charset=UTF-8", but the
>> following separators create problems when using russian language:
>> 
>> $Newline = "\262";
>> $KeepToken = "\263";
>> $LinkToken = "\264";
>> 
>> The third language of russian alphabet in UTF-8 conflicts with one of
>> them. Can these separators be longer than 1 letter, and can they be
>> replaced with UTF-8 friendly ones?
>> 
>> The bytes 0xFE and 0xFF are never used in the UTF-8 encoding.
>> 
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