Hi Danny, I've added comments prefix with DP: _____________Original message ____________ Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Hebrew support Sender: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:35:28 +0000
Dave, Thank you - fwiw - VB supports hebrew fine. DP: I probably phrased that badly. What I mean is that the controls that ship with the English vesion of VB doesn't seem to do Unicode well. There are two issues I believe - 1 for Pgadmin and 1 for PG 1) Input methods - W2K supports input methods in just about every language known to man. At installation time you choose lang. support and you're set. This enables you to do a right-alt-shift in W2K and start typing hebrew in any Windows application. It might be an issue of which VB objects for input methods you use or how you use them . DP: I've been very careful in the design of pgAdmin to use only standard VB controls to minimise compatibility problems. Unfortunately they still exist :-( Internationalisation is probably my weakest area. In particular we've had trouble with Japanese.... My own theory is that it's a font problem (I can find no other possibilities) but I can't test this myself as I don't know how, and no-one else seems to be able to tell me. If this is the problem, then we have to find the best way of handling font files that can be 30Mb+ Jean-Michel.. if you are reading, have you had any more thoughts on this? If we knock up a test app, can you test on any of you machines? We could at least then allow the pgAdmin user to select the font, and have them download a suitable one if required. 2) Data encoding - Windows 2K and Office deal with Unicode as UCS-2. PG encodes with UTF-8. I think what is happening (and mind you I may be wrong) - is that Pgadmin reads the UTF-8 and being a Windows application tries to display it in whatever encoding it's objects support. Excel can READ a PG UTF-8 encoded table but needs to export as a Web page in UTF-8 to be able to display the hebrew properly. This is why Pgaccess works ok - it is written in tcl8 and reads UTF-8 from PG and displays the hebrew using it's i18n library. HAVING said all this - all I really want to do is to get Postgres 7.1 or 7.2 to order hebrew properly in any encoding - which doesnt seem to work.... -:( DP: I'd post that problem to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Regards, Dave
