Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com wrote:
I am sceptical about automatic conversion. As you said, it is mainly a solution for reading, but not for writing, because the source text is in one specific spelling or character system.
Why couldn't that be converted on the fly as well? Choose one variant as the canonical one, and store only that in the database. Anyone wanting to use other formats would have the text in the edit box automatically converted to their preferred variant on the fly, and converted back when they saved.
When you declare one version canonical the risk is that you will have supporters of the losing version(s) becoming irrationally angry.
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