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

[Whalen, Liam]

I think I was mistaken about the intent of this meeting.  This is probably better served for the dev-list.

Liam 

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> [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On 
> Behalf Of Whalen, Liam
> Sent: September 20, 2011 12:26
> To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Scheduled: Evergreen Community 
> IRC MeetingforFriday Sept 23
> 
> > 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-java
> script-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
> 
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