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Optimized handling of non latin chars

Languages with multibyte chars like Chinese aren't very good supported by phpwcms. Now I have patched many database fields for better handling of multibyte chars. For instance article titles are now stored as TEXT (max. 65535 chars) - not longer as VARCHAR (max. 255 chars): for Chinese language this has meant only a maximum of 31 chars per title).

Updating your database is only neccessary if you need support for those languages. There are a lot of other changes done in phpwcms - most of them are in preparation for future releases.

E-Cards included

There is a new content part included - I know not so important for you - an e-card system. But it introduces a new way of sending emails. Now (not completely done) phpwcms uses the phpmailer class for sending emails. This results in the possibility to send emails via SMTP method - also by using SMTP_AUTH. This should solve many problems you have with sending email and email forms.

Structural changes

I made a lot of strutural changes - all external classes and includes are now stored in "include/inc_ext". Alle external apps are updated to most current release (HTMLarea 3, Spaw, phpMailer...).