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Am Dunnersdag 19 August 2004 17:26 schrieb Timwi:
We want UTF-8 because it allows us to do things that
Latin-1 cannot do
(in particular, have article titles with proper characters). Talking
about space requirements is pointless. Something that can do less will
*obviously* require less space for the things it *can* do, but what use
is that if it cannot do what we want.
ok.
3 Points you should know before:
- - Links with Encodings as %FC don't work after the conversion - they should be
converted before, especially for Interlanguage-Links, where you sometimes
can't guess the right spelling
- - sometimes there are two encodings for only 1 character - for example Ð has 4
or 5 of them.
- - we had massive problems with non-ASCII-Usernames on de:
- --
Kai F. Lahmann
1zu160-Bahner
http://www.1zu160.net
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