Re: Does Tikiwiki support UTF-8?
I do understand what you said. My point was that a number of wiki and CMS software programs have a problem about MySQL dumps of their data not showing utf-8 characters correctly. Do all of these programs (including Mediawiki) have broken utf-8 support? I don't think so. Full support for utf-8 is quite new for MySQL, and the problem appears to be in how MySQL receives the data and stores it and exports it.
TikiWiki and these other programs do successfully receive, store, and display utf-8 text, so as far as their own use is concerned, there's no problem.
As I said, it is great that MySQL can cleanly export utf-8 text from Joomla (1.5, not earlier releases, from what I read). I would like to know the details of Joomla 1.5's database connections that enable this success. If I get time in the future, I'll explore this myself, because it's been a curiosity to me (but only a curiosity, since I don't need my TikiWiki database dumps for any external use, and utf-8 handling is just fine within the program).
-- Gary
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