[Phpmyadmin-devel] Use utf-8 for ChangeLog

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

On 20.04.2004 01:04 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 00:16 +0200, Alexander M. Turek wrote:
> > Apache just has to send a correct Content-Type header. Could this be done
> > with a proper .htaccess file?
> 
> maybe, but would be-apache only, and work only where .htaccess files are
> allowed, etc.
> 
> > If not, we could build a small php script for this purpose:
> > <?php
> > header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
> > readfile('./ChangeLog');
> > ?>

Too much complicated and IMHO not needed.

> ok why not, but it was fine before as simple .txt, so why this change?
> 
> oh well, spent the whole day on £&%@*& charset problems (pages supposed
> to work in english, french & arabic), 

That's what unicode is supposed to solve :-)

> so I will stick to 7bit
> for the changelog anyway, so do what you want :) 

:-)

> > > to make it looks correct, default content type at apache 
> > > level should be changed to utf8... no sure if it's really the 
> > > best way... ?
> > Should work, too.
> 
> sure, but I guess that most of pma users are not root, so not allowed
> to do that :)

You usually can add .htaccess and you allways can select charset in
browser (thats what I have to do anyway, since my default is not
iso-8859-1 :-)).

> > > I vote for a 7bit changelog :)
> > 
> > Is this why you avoid writing the umlaut in your last name? Be proud of it!
> 
> with "ue" I know it will always look fine everywhere... :)

We had iso-8859-1 one, so change to 7bit would be also needed :-)

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	Michal Čihař
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