{"id":1228,"date":"2003-03-01T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/03\/01\/lazyweb-help-me-pick-a-cms\/"},"modified":"2003-03-01T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T20:48:47","slug":"lazyweb-help-me-pick-a-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/03\/01\/lazyweb-help-me-pick-a-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazyweb: help me pick a CMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to find a content-management system, mostly for running a limited-access discussion forum. I’ve already looked at Drupal, which is pretty nice, but I have not yet figured out how to make it fully support Japanese, which is a make-or-break feature.<\/p>\n

I can get limited success writing Japanese in Drupal, but (in the best-case scenario so far) the characters wind up being escaped to numeric Unicode entities, which are not editable after being posted, and apparently are not searchable.<\/p>\n

I also looked at the Slash engine, but A) the installation instructions assume you are root, assume you are more technically adept than I am, and are very sketchy all around, and B) has the same problems with Japanese.<\/p>\n

I suspect the Japanese-handling problems in both Drupal and Slash could be fixed with some minor coding changes, but I don’t know where to start. Messing with the template charsets doesn’t do it.<\/p>\n

Other desirable features:
\nThreaded message structure
\nModeration\/karma points a la Slashdot
\nFlexible permissions setup
\nStraightforward templating for admin<\/p>\n

None of the other CMSs or web-BBSs I’ve looked at so far have forum threading,<\/p>\n

[Later]<\/i> Seems that I can almost<\/b> get Japanese working right in Drupal (why do I think of towering drag-queens every time I say that?) after all: there was a configuration issue that was causing the Japanese to be escaped. I turned that off, and now everything is close to hunky-dory, except for one thing: searching on Japanese terms always returns no results.<\/p>\n

[Still later]<\/i> Turns out a Japanese drupal user has developed a patch<\/a>. This helps some of the problems I was having (and was already groping towards solving). Still doesn’t enable Japanese searching, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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