[TYPO3-dev] Chinese (utf-8) in filelist

[Martin Kutschker]

Gideon So schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>    Actually, this is a old problem. I can read any Chinese characters in
> the filelist backend module. All files in Chinese shown like this:
> _________.jpg. Is there anything I can do to solve this or I have to
> report it as a bug / ferature request??

The problem is that TYPO3 relies on filenames in ASCII only. I think it has
to do with (old) limitations on filesystems and URLs.

The problem could be solved if we accept UTF-8 for filenames. BUT there are
ASCII checks and transformations in the whole Core. And the other parts of
the code rely on ASCII. So simply allowing UTF-8 for filenames won't do any
good even if you hacked (easy) the file upload routines in the BE.

Has Chinese anything like Japanese Hiragana or Katakana? TYPO3 could be
taught to transliterate it to ASCII.

I found only Pīnyīn, which is perhaps a bit awkward to read after
ASCII-ifation (the tones normally represented with accents will become
numbers). But OTOH it is an ISO standard.

Anyway, even if you used Pinyin with accents to name your file, you have to
modifify the transliteration table, because currently accents are simply
stripped.

Masi