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will it have full utf-8 support? as we all know php won't have utf-8 support until php6 sees a day of light (and it will take some time), but one can implement it in php5 using mbstring libraby for example, but there are also othere ways. worth careful reading: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets.

with utf8 support usebb can be used for multilingual forums and it will be great advantage.

UTF-8 is quite important because with the current system it is a real pain in the ass to keep everything working with entities (for example in the Russian forum on this community).

I believe the mbstring library isn't yet available by default in PHP. If it isn't I was perhaps planning to use the UTF library available in DokuWiki, also discussed on the link you gave: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets#case_studydokuwiki

yeah, this DokuWiki lib is good one, although it misses preg regular expressions support. so does mbstring anyway. but here, as usebb 2.0 is planned for 5.1, one can take advantage of preg notation implemented from 5.1 (\pL). i have no much time to write more about it but i'll try to contact you soon with more details.

i've just learnt unicode support in php is supposed to be since php 5.2, not from 6 as it was planned ealier. i think you should take it into consideration before wasting time for implementing dokuwiki or other solution.

The first time I hear about this. It should be considered indeed. UseBB 2 will take a bit longer then, but it could be worth it.

i read about it in some of derick rethans' talks and some mailinglist posts (don't have links now), so i can't confirm that. i'll try to browse more for more info - justr hope it wasn't moved to php6, which is planned for the end of 2006. for the meantime, i think this link might be useful for you : http://derickrethans.nl/files/wereldveroverend-ac2005.pdf

sorry for confusion, just received reply from derick and yet unicode will be only from php6

So, no plans change then. We will use the DokuWiki library until PHP 6 where we will probably have to rewrite big parts of the code.