Pankaj from the forums has just finished the Hindi L10N translation for WordPress. Find more information in the Wiki. Pretty sweet!

Code fragment: $string =”%u4E2D%u56FD%u5E7B%u60F3%u6587%u5B66%u57FA%u573″; $new_string = utf8RawUrlDecode( $string); echo “encoded string is “.$new_string; function utf8RawUrlDecode ($source) { $decodedStr = ”; $pos = 0; $len = strlen ($source); while ($pos < $len) { $charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1); if ($charAt == ‘%’) { $pos++; $charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1); if ($charAt == ‘u’) { // we got a unicode character $pos++; $unicodeHexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 4); $unicode = hexdec ($unicodeHexVal); $entity = “&#”. $unicode . ‘;’; $decodedStr .= utf8_encode ($entity); $pos += 4; } else { // we have an escaped ascii character $hexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 2); $decodedStr .= chr (hexdec ($hexVal)); $pos += 2; } } else { $decodedStr .= $charAt; $pos++; } } return $decodedStr; }

Adam of Idly.org has come up with his version of a linkblogger for WordPress. Since his switch, he has also come up with a few other useful fixes and migration tools from Movable Type to WordPress. He says that the LinkBlogger is still infant but workable and is, of course, a work in progress. Some of the salient features include – Import from MT linkblogs – ATOM feed – Various achive feed methods – Nested, unordered list output which can be tweaked Here is the link to WordPress LinkBlogger 1.0. While I am on the subject, welcome Adam, to the WordPress community.

Mark P suggested a link on IRC that I think is worth blogging. Some of the links in this toolbox includes CSS layouts, color choosers, layout ideas, list ideas etc. Check it out at: Rands in Repose, ReDesign Toolbox

Curioso has come up with a very nice WordPress (1.2) plugin that allows the easy creation of galleries as posts. He calls this pug-in PictPress. An example of this can be found here. Once the bugs have been ironed out, I have asked if I could include this as an addition to Pictorialis.

I have refrained from making any suggestions so far, but I have to promote WordPress. If you are a Moveable Type user and are unhappy with the recent developments, please take a look at WordPress. I will not tell you that you should do it because all the “cool bloggers” are doing it, but because the transition will be worth it. WordPress makes it very easy to import your old MT entries and the support forums and the IRC channels are hopping. In addition, the features list keeps growing, a new version 1.2 is around the corner and development is very, very active. There are some very good resources available on the web to make this transition. More info about the move from Movable type to WordPress Redirecting MT URIs More ways to redirect MT URIs Even more ways to redirect MT URIs A comparison of MT and WordPress (older […]

Adam Idly has writte up some cool mod_rewrite rules to redirect your old MT archives pages. Here is the link to his entry. http://idly.org/2004/05/13/fixing-mt-urls-for-wp

There have been some very serious changes in the licensing structure of Movable Type. This is an issue that requires research and much pondering. Here are some interesting articles about that fact. Stay tuned for more as and when it develops. Are you an MT user and have some thoughts? Register and post. It’s About Time http://secure.sixapart.com/ WordPress Dev Blog http://blog.carthik.net/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/ “I have to wonder if MT’s new licensing schema is a move to drive people to typepad?” Look through some of the trackbacks and comments on that post from SixApart. Interesting.