[Phpmyadmin-devel] UTF-8 package

[Marc Delisle]

Michael Keck a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I think this would be mainly for end users, wich installes PMA on their 
> webspace.
> If I only install the needed languages (I delete the not required 
> languages),
> PMA is round about 30% smaller ;)
> 
> But this was only a suggestion, not a requestet feature or patch ;)

It's not a bad suggestion, I'm just trying to see how to do it.

I guess a German guy would want to download the main kit plus a language 
pack containing only German?

Marc

> 
> I think too:
> For the others like XAMPP, ISP or Linux Distributors I think it would be 
> better
> that they've all languages.
> 
> --- Original Message ---
> Mail from: Marc Delisle
> Date: 29.09.2006 18:48
>> Michael Keck a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there any Browser wich couldn't support UTF-8 charsets? I don't 
>>> really know.
>>> But the current browsers and IE 5.5. too should support UTF-8.
>>>
>>> Another point:
>>> How are you thinking about language packages?
>>> Each language should be installable like we've done with themes.
>>
>> I don't know how we could handle this. Only English in the main package 
>> and all other languages into another kit?
>>
>> A separate download for each language?
>>
>> We also have to think what the distributors (like XAMPP or the various 
>> Linux distros) will do? They will install all languages anyway? Put two 
>> kits, one containing only English and an additional language pack?
>>
>> I did not suspect that download size could be an issue nowadays.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>> This will reduce download and package size to ;)
>>>
>>> Regards Michael
>>>
>>> --- Original Message ---
>>> Mail from: Marc Delisle
>>> Date: 29.09.2006 14:05
>>>> Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> would it require much work to make a second package with UTF-8 lang
>>>>> files only?
>>>>>
>>>>> saving half the size
>>>>>
>>>>> and we could see in the download statistics what is prefered/required
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not much work, it's a good idea. We could advertise this new one as the 
>>>> "main" one, saying that the one that includes non-UTF-8 lang files is 
>>>> necessary only with older browsers. Any idea which browsers?
>>>>
>>>> Marc