i18n / UTF-8 / Twiki / docs.indymedia.org was: Re: [IMC-Tech] strange scripts on twicki

[Chris Croome]

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Hi

I'm not sure which version of TWiki that
http://docs.indymedia.org/ is running -- upgrading to the
latest version might have the i18n situation a bit better,
however UTF-8 support in TWiki is still not 100% sorted
yet :-(

I posted to this list about this the other day because of
problems with Chinese:

  I have done a small bit of digging on this issue and
  there is some info about UTF-8 and TWiki is here:

    http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/InternationalisationEnhancements

  It seem that things are moving on, but full UTF-8
  support is not yet there:

    http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ProposedUTF8SupportForI18N

  There are other wikis that can do UTF-8, I installed
  Subwiki the other day and got that working OK, however
  it doesn't have many features -- it is probably best to
  wait till TWiki can do UTF-8... 

  Anyone else have any ideas? I think this is a very
  important issue for the global network.

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2003-October/011959.html

Anyone have any thoughts? Is anyone taking responsibility
for tech upgrade to the TWiki?

Perhaps we need a i18n FAQ and TODO list or something...?


Chris

On Mon 10-Nov-2003 at 02:16:04PM +0100, blue.pi wrote:
> 
> I am right now putting some translations of documents
> into Arabic on the twicki pages. Don't know if you are
> still working on perfecting this wonderful tool. But in
> case you are, I wanted to inform you about some problems
> people who are working with non latin script are facing. 
> 
> When you save, the text is converted into unicode which
> means it is only numbers. This means that if you have
> forgotten something and may it just be a paragraph
> (which is in Arabic quite sensitive - because it is
> written from right to left it easily happens that you
> mess up) you basically have to reinsert the text and
> start all over again because it is very difficult to
> recognize where you in between all those numbers. If you
> have made a spelling mistake it is impossible. 
> 
> The problem must be solvable because with the articles
> on IMC Beirut we don't have this problem. We can read
> them in arabic script in the admin not in numbers. IMC
> Beirut runs on Mir, don't know how the situation is with
> active. 

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