Hi

IMHO, the best solutiuon is the first one ie

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1. We could add a set of new language files that are

encoded with the Mac charsets. Unfortunatly, this would result in larger distribution packages, but it is the only way to have this problem fixed without using iconv or recode.

OK, the package will be larger, but this is a one time problem: when dowloading and installing phpMyAdmin. Other possible fixes will increase too much server charge each time an end-user play with phpMyAdmin.

I absolutely agree with this, using recode/iconv for each string would cause much overhead on server. But there could be other solution:

4) Allow runtime generation of translations, eg. there will be list of possible translations and when user selects one that is not existing, the translation will be generated during this request and all next time this generated one will be used. This would require few things: - webserwer user writable lang directory (or move generated translations to other directory) - some version checking of translations (when pma gets updated, the generated translations must be refreshed) - make this easily configurable (how to describe how to generate these translations)

This wouldn't increase much dist packages nor server load, but it is harder to make it (eh, this is usual, isn't it?).

Michal