[dev] suggestion - turba, LDAP, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> I have this scenery in my mind:
> We determine by a Browser:: method if the browser supports unicode - using 
> the browser version or http_accept_charset header. If it doesn't we keep 
> things going like they used to.
> If it does support unicode we put the iconv handler on the output buffer 
> stack (after http compression if enabled). If we come across some content 
> that's not in the selected language's charset like emails in a different 
> charset we print out the content until (now converted into unicode) print 
> the other content (also converting by iconv into unicode) and stack the 
> iconv handler to the output buffering stack again.
> 
> The result would be fully unicoded apps, where you can have the ui in 
> russian and read chinese messages without any information loss.
> 
> Thoughts on this appreciated.

That'd be really slick if we could get it going.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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