Developer Meetings/2009-1

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Naming
  • the project's name is "openZIM" which means we provide an open source implementation of the "Zeno IMproved" file format
  • the file format will be renamed to "ZIM" to distinguish between the Zeno file format from Directmedia
Indexing and Searching
  • several possibilities can be implemented:
    • internal search index
    • external search index
    • using an external library such as Zeno, Sphinx, Xapian...
    • Decision: will be postponed until next developers meeting which will focus on that
Encoding
  • article texts in UTF-8
  • URLs in UTF-8
  • latin1 auto detection will be kept for backwards compatibility
  • problem: sorting multibyte characters
    • there should be libraries which are able to sort multibyte characters, including them
    • dropping QUnicode library
Namespaces


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Infrastructure