My previous experience with Discuz! and UCenter Home gave me an impression that their installation documentation is sometimes not so accurate, so I decided to write up my own here. Basically, I follow:
Here’s what I want to achieve: setup UCenter Home 2.0 on a dedicated linux server. And since installing UCenter Home is a 2 step process of installing UCenter first and then UCenter Home, I break it into 2 posts. This post covers installing UCenter. In next post I’ll talk about UCenter Home.
In the installation document of Comsenz’ UCenter (http://faq.comsenz.com/userguide/uchome/uc_install.html), it is said:
“在这里要说明一下：我们提供了 4 种不同的编码。包括 GBK 简体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 简体中文版、BIG5 繁体中文版(推荐)、UTF-8 繁体中文版，请自己的需求选择相应版本的论坛程序下载。”
It means the author recommends installing the package using GBK/BIG5 encoding instead of the UTF8 one. It confuses me as I thought the UTF8 version is be more appropriate for general use. I have friends writing in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, so UTF8 is a requirement for me. To confirm whether UTF8 version is worse than its GBK/BIG5 peers, I download all packages and diff them. The result is comforting, as the only output is of the following type: Continue Reading…