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Jason Filby	Wednesday 10 March 2004 8:54:35 pm Hi all My site uses charset iso-8859-1, but now I want to change over to UTF-8. Is there any documentation on this process? Thanks Jason
Bård Farstad	Thursday 11 March 2004 12:01:39 am There is a page on this topic: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/unicode_with_ez_publish Basically you need to change some .ini settings then you need to convert the character set of your database. In MySQL you can do this with myisamchk, haven't converted a PostgreSQL database so you would need to look up the charset conversion in the psql doc. If you want to use MySQL you need to use the 4.1 development release. --bård Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Georg Franz	Thursday 11 March 2004 4:31:56 am Hi Bard, it isn't that "easy" and you may run into some serious troubles. It takes some time to convert a installation to utf-8. But it isn't done with the db-update. Your templates may also need some adjustments. So it took me around a week of programming / testing to do this job. All in all I can say: Don't do the conversion -) if there is no really important reason and -) if you are not familiar with the code of ez Kind regards, Emill. Best wishes, Georg. -- http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004

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Jason Filby

Wednesday 10 March 2004 8:54:35 pm

Hi all

My site uses charset iso-8859-1, but now I want to change over to UTF-8. Is there any documentation on this process?

Thanks
Jason

Bård Farstad

Thursday 11 March 2004 12:01:39 am

There is a page on this topic:
http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/unicode_with_ez_publish

Basically you need to change some .ini settings then you need to convert the character set of your database. In MySQL you can do this with myisamchk, haven't converted a PostgreSQL database so you would need to look up the charset conversion in the psql doc.

If you want to use MySQL you need to use the 4.1 development release.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Georg Franz

Thursday 11 March 2004 4:31:56 am

Hi Bard,

it isn't that "easy" and you may run into some serious troubles.

It takes some time to convert a installation to utf-8. But it isn't done with the db-update. Your templates may also need some adjustments.

So it took me around a week of programming / testing to do this job.

All in all I can say:
Don't do the conversion
-) if there is no really important reason and
-) if you are not familiar with the code of ez

Kind regards,
Emill.

Best wishes,
Georg.

--
http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004