Developer Meetings/2009-1

Naming

• the project's name is "openZIM" which means we provide an open source implementation of the "Zeno IMproved" file format
• Decision: 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

Header / Templating

Infrastructure