[pLog-svn] Get rid of encoding

[Benjamin Krause]

Am Dec 30, 2004 um 19:44 Uhr schrieb Oscar Renalias:

> Definitely, no.
>
> The reason is simple: people already have lots of text in iso-8859-1, 
> or big5, or any other encoding stored in the database. Changing the 
> default encoding of the site now would break all old posts. It might 
> not matter for you so much if you have 15 posts but it will mean lots 
> of trouble for sites with 1000, 2000 or 25000 posts.
>
> Keep in mind that 1.0 is not a new version but rather an upgrade to a 
> piece of software that has been running for over 1.5 years now so we 
> have to try to break as little as possible when people roll out an 
> upgrade to their sites...
>
> So please let's leave it as it is. It's been working fine so far 
> anyway...

well, to convert all db stored text to utf-8 isn't that big of a 
problem, and i bet
you will have to get rid of encodings sooner or later.

but i see your point.. if this software is already in use with huge 
amount
of entries, this migration might cause problems.

as long as its just mysql that is supported, converting all existing 
posts
is not that complicated. with a db independent code, you cannot convert
all texts to utf-8 so easily.

anyway.. i'll leave it the way it is :)