Andrew Dunbar wrote:
I'm sure mediawiki will make use of proper utf-8 support when mysql has proper utf-8 support. Our users want to use Unicode characters beyond plane 1 and the current mysql utf-8 support does not make this possible.
In addition to going beyond plane 1, is there any established practice for how to do Unicode "properly"?
Sorry if this is off topic, since Wikipedia is already doing UTF-8. I have a couple of other projects in Latin-1 that need to be converted to UTF-8. Is the time ripe? It seems that Perl 5.8 and MySQL 5 have far better Unicode support than earlier versions. But is it still a bit early? I'm sending my mail in UTF-8 with Pine 4.64, and I know some people have problems with this.