[horde] enable UTF-8 then cause these problems
Chuck Hagenbuch
chuck at horde.org
Tue Jan 21 08:04:17 PST 2003
Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> Storing the serialized data unconverted into the backend has advantages
> as well as disadvantages to converting the data to the backend's internal
> charset before storing it:
> Advantage: Every data can be stored, no matter what charset the current
> user has.
> Disavantage: The data get broken as soon as the user changes his charset,
> for example by switching the translation or by the admin turning utf
> support on.
That seems like a pretty compelling argument for converting the charset when
storing it; someone could easily have a reason to change languages regularly
when using Horde apps.
-chuck
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