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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PDF umlaute and accented chars?

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> joelg:
> > Hi florianlink,
> >
> > i am german speaking too. And I see a lot of problems with german (and other languages too). UTF-8 is unable, what we need is ISO-8859-1 !
> >
>
> Oh no, definitely not ISO-8859-1!!! Moving back to single-byte character sets would be a non-starter in my view. UTF-8 will handle any character set - German, Polish, Russian, etc etc, including Chinese and Japanese I believe. If you use UTF-8 you can mix these languages on a single site which you can't do with non-Unicode character sets. And as far as I can see there is nothing wrong with Tikis treatment of German (or French, same thing) characters:
>
> Voici des caractères français par exemple, y compris umlaut ü, et à ce que je vois pas de problème: razz
>
> So "Vive UTF-8!" and a huge raspberry to PDFLib for not handling it: pitiful. Definitely big problem in Tiki though since it makes PDF unusable for any character set other than English - pity
>
> JoelG

Hi JoelG,

thx for your comment.

But I think UFT-8 is not the solution (read the comment from djoguet).

It is not only a problem of PDF generation, of generation the HTML output (which has no character transformation like ä = & auml ;).

And THE BIG problem is the communication with other systems over RSS or the integration of parts of our HTML from search engines.

Try it und you will believe it. No PDF, no serious RSS,...

And take a look at other systems like for instance Moveable Type (depending on the language they use other charsets like UTF-8. Surprise: for german ISO...)

paulap

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