[pmwiki-users] Changing charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Apr 7 09:01:50 CDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:37:16AM +0200, Laurent Meister wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a nice way to convert existing pages from a pmwiki written 
> with ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8?

Depends on what you consider to be "nice".  :-)

You can often enlist a browser's help in this -- edit a page that is
encoded in ISO-8859-1, copy the markup text to the clipboard, and
then paste it into the edit form for a site that is set up for utf-8.
The broswer will often handle the encoding translation.

Still, I suppose this is more work than one would want to do, especially
for a large site.  I could see about coming up with a translation
module for PmWiki, that could do mass conversion of pages or perhaps
even automatically converting character sets on the fly.

> Some Browser seems not to show chars like the " ?" euro-symbol 
> properly. Switching the page to UTF-8 would solve this problem. 

You might also treat the euro-symbol chars as markup to be converted to
€, either when the page is rendered or when it is saved.  This might
eliminate the need to convert pages to utf-8.  Let me know if you want to
try this approach.  :-)

Pm



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