[pmwiki-users] Defaulting PmWiki to utf8

[sti at pooq.com]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:35:27AM -0500, sti at pooq.com wrote:

> So, perhaps the correct baby step is to switch PmWiki to using utf8
> by default via its present mechanisms (i.e., without name mappings),
> and then add name mapping features as a post-2.2.0 improvement.
> Folks who prefer the somewhat nicer encodings for pagenames (i.e.,
> %e7 instead of %c3%a7) will still have the option of selecting
> iso-8859-1 for their systems.

That is certainly doable on its own.

>> Of course, in cases like Chinese where EVERY name is manged,
>> that file may grow very big, very fast.
> 
> Yes, but for the moment I'm principally concerned only with mapping
> of iso-8859-1 names.  People who are using PmWiki in Chinese are
> already using utf-8 and I don't feel as pressing a need to solve
> url mapping issues there yet.  Nor am I familiar enough with Chinese to
> know the character mappings... but if someone can provide it we can
> give it a try.

I'm not familiar with Chinese, but a couple of programmer friends of mine are,
and I think I can get one of them to help with the character mapping. One of
them mentioned the 25,000 pinyin line table I talked about earlier.

I have no idea how one would tell PHP to load that into memory once, so it
didn't have to be reread on each page-load though.