[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduled: Evergreen Community IRC Meeting forFriday Sept 23

[Whalen, Liam]

> The agenda has begun at
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:meetin
> gs:2011-09-23
> - please feel free to add additional agenda items as needed 
> for discussion.  Also, it would be great if committee groups 
> would edit to include links to group reports in advance of 
> the meeting.

I cannot make the IRC chats.  Could someone bring up the use of encodeURIComponent() and decodeURIComponent as opposed to escape() and unescape() to parse URLs?  encodeURIComponent() and decodeURIComponent preserve UTF-8 characters while escape and unescape do not.  A quick 'grep -re "escape(" * | wc -l' in the /Evergreen-ILS-2.0.8/Open-ILS directory brings up 394 occurrences of escape() and unescape().  I imagine many of them do not deal with UTF-8 characters, but it might be a good idea to replace them all any way.

This website (http://www.dangrossman.info/2007/05/25/handling-utf-8-in-javascript-php-and-non-utf8-databases/) suggests using code like this:

if (encodeURIComponent) {
    string = encodeURIComponent(string);
} else {
    string = escape(string);
}

in order to allow the ILS to work with older browsers.

Liam

Natural Resources Canada Library / Bibliothèque de Ressources naturelles Canada
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