[pmwiki-users] UTF-8 support and mbstrings

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:48:03PM +0300, Athan wrote:
> > But all of this needs to be on a switch of some sort; we don't want to
> > be calling utf8tolower() for sites that aren't running utf8, nor do
> > we want to give them the execution overhead of unnecessary calls to
> > convert things to lowercase.
> 
> Yeah you're right.
> Personally I could use a single byte encoding (8859-7 for Greek) instead 
> utf8, it worked great with pmwiki when tried. But I think that utf8 is the 
> "right thing". Unfortunately Zend did nothing to support unicode in php5, 
> now they say v6 will fix that. Who knows...

Having dealt with Unicode and utf-8 a fair bit in several environments, I 
wouldn't hold my breath for this.  :-)  However, I completely agree that
going with utf-8 is a better overall alternative to using a single-byte
charset and encoding.

Pm