[Phpmyadmin-devel] Code cleanup - $charset global variable

[Marc Delisle]

Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
> In many files there are about 80-100 references to $GLOBALS['charset']
> (or just $charset) variable, which is always set to 'utf-8'. It is not
> a change that should go now, but after 3.4 is released I propose to:
> - remove all references where it is used to generate HTTP headers and
> HTML (we already have it hardcoded in many places)
> - remove this variable and introduce it as a constant or, if only a
> few references remain, just use string literals

Looks like a good cleanup for 3.5.
> 
> A quick glance at code also revealed some a possible bug in comparison
> with $charset_of_file - this var stores one of MySQL compatible
> charset names, while our variable stores "utf-8", not "utf8".

Better fix this one for 3.4, can you work on this?

> 
> I can prepare an appropriate patch and commit it after 3.4 is released.
> 



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