[pmwiki-users] utf-8 issue

[t20250408pmwiki at logand.com]

Hi Petko,

On Wed 09 Apr 2025 at 00:01, t20250408pmwiki at logand.com wrote:
> On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 23:58, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:
>> You should have a file config.php in the pmwiki/local directory, and 
>> enable UTF-8 in that file.

this worked, thank you very much!

A few more questions:

1) What would break if I used html5 in a custom template instead of
   xhtml?  Is it better to stick with xhtml?

2) I use NixOS and keep all immutable stuff in read only /nix/store.
   Unfortunatelly, because of the way pmwiki is structured,
   I have to symlink so much stuff into the mutable dataDir:

  system.activationScripts.ensure-pmwiki = ''
    if ! test -d ${dataDir}; then
      mkdir ${dataDir}
    fi
    chown ${app}:${app} ${dataDir}
    chmod 755 ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${pmwiki}/share/pmwiki.php ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${pmwiki}/share/pub ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${pmwiki}/share/scripts ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${pmwiki}/share/wikilib.d ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${indexPhp} ${dataDir}/index.php
    ln -sf ${local}/local ${dataDir}
    ln -sf ${robotsTxt} ${dataDir}/robots.txt
    if ! test -d ${dataDir}/wiki.d; then
      mkdir ${dataDir}/wiki.d
    fi
    chown -R ${app}:${app} ${dataDir}/wiki.d
    if ! test -d ${dataDir}/uploads; then
      mkdir ${dataDir}/uploads
    fi
    chown -R ${app}:${app} ${dataDir}/uploads
    systemctl restart phpfpm-pmwiki
  '';

   Is there a way to minimize this symlinking somehow?
   Ideally, there would be read-only directory for immutable stuff
   and read-write directory for mutable stuff (wiki.d and uploads)
   and these two would not need to be mixed.
   One idea would be to have web server root in the read-only /nix/store
   and somehow configure the location of the wiki.d and uploads
   directories in config.php.  Is this possible?

   The way wikilib.d and wiki.d work is kind of overlay, where
   rw files in wiki.d can overlay ro files in wikilib.d.
   Would it be possibe to do something like this for skins,
   so that can overlay custom skin dir and I do not have to "patch"
   the upstream pmwiki-2.4.3 package?  Maybe an overlay for the whole
   pub/ directory?

Cheers,

Tomas