[pmwiki-users] No automatic charset/encoding conversion?

[Petko Yotov]

On Friday 20 May 2011 21:55:39 Oliver Betz wrote:
> the page files contain information about their encoding, e.g.
> "charset=ISO-8859-1" or "charset=UTF-8".
> 
> But it seems PmWiki doesn't use this information to convert
> automatically to current encoding, for example if I enable UTF-8 in an
> existing installation, pages with "charset=ISO-8859-1" don't work
> anymore?

Hello. Yes, you are correct. At the moment PmWiki only stores this information 
without using it. But someday the charset information will help migrating 
existing 2.x.x pages to version 2.3.x which should be in UTF-8.

Petko