Unicode aware IssueTrackerProduct
15 May 2007
The latest SVN version now stores the name, title and description as Unicode (using UTF-8 for the encoding by default). This does mean that a lot of things have changed. Read on if you're interested in making this work for the next release.
The changes are currently complete and available in the latest SVN but we need more people testing it. Especially how it works in conjunction with existing already created issue trackers where there are issues saved as ASCII.
There is no migration code that needs to be run which means that new issues and followups will be saved as Unicode strings.
The benefit of storing these things as Unicode is support for non-latin based languages and better interoperability with other applications without unforseen errors about charset encoding.
If you're interested in helping out getting these new features nailed right before the next release, please join the mailing list or just install and test the SVN version on your existing IssueTrackerProducts (of course you back them up first :) and let us know if you run into any problems.
