Paul, I know the client is running CF on NT4, so that's probably going to mean a new copy of CF at the least. Their current CF/Chinese site uses GB2312 encoding, but all I can see is the html output. I'm just the shadowy coding guy subcontracted by the designers.
When you say ''use unicode'' what exactly does that entail. See? I truly is ignorant --Matt-- -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFMX and Chinese > (goes on every page) > <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="GB2312"> > > (Goes in application.cfm) > <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=GB2312"> > <cfset setEncoding("URL", "GB2312")> > <cfset setEncoding("Form", "GB2312")> i would urge you to use unicode. it will simplify things considerably. > What about db inserts, updates and output? Whats the Big5 charset and > is it relevant/better than GB2312? Utf-8? Or are they all no they aren't interchangeable. big5 is "traditional" chinese, GB2312 is "simplified" chinese. utf-8 is an encoding form of the borg-like unicode. > interchangeable? Will some types of text fields not work with Chinese > chars (I've heard some oblique refs about how 'n' type fields are bad > but no specifics or workarounds). I would want to run this on mySQL and > CFMX if possible. "N" datatypes are bad? news to me & sql server i18n developers, so lets call that nonsense. mySQL? doesn't handle unicode yet (i think). the big iron (sql server, oracle, postgreSQL, etc.) dbs have better i18n functionality than mysql. i'd experiment w/mysql plenty first. you should get a good set of test text data from your clients. there's a modest FAQ on CJK here: http://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html don't forget about dates, numeric, currency formatting as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
