Symeon, How are you storing unicode in your regular files? I thought to go multibyte you need to turn on NLS?
________________________________ From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Symeon Breen [syme...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:50 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses We do store multi byte stuff, the biggest issues we have are not in the storing but in its identification so that you can then transport and display it correctly, we often get the data in xml files so we need to know that the file has the correct character set definition, similarly the data is displayed in a browser via html so again we need to know that the correct character set is used, and certainly not mix character sets on one output, ascii/utf8 combination is fine, but you can get in knots if you start to combine iso8859-1 with utf8 as the characters 127-255 are single byte in iso8859-1 but double byte in utf8. In some ways utf8 is better than is08859-1 as you don't get the u umlout issue as character 253. You can of course mix character sets in your data, so long as you know what is what. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org<mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: 13 September 2010 16:38 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses Hey, Just wondering how others have approached this - storing multi-byte names and addresses for non-English languages. I don't think we're approaching the demarcation line where an NLS implementation would be warranted, with the Administrative overhead that incurs. We are doing a lot more other language business though since we are opening more and more off-shore call centers, and have deployed multiple non English language websites. Our immediate need just relates to Name, and ship to / bill to addresses, such words as "Mosiężno-Żelaznych". Thanks in advance for the always enlightening insights. -Baker ________________________________ This communication, its contents and any file attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential proprietary information. Access by any other party without the express written permission of the sender is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error you may not copy, distribute or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org<mailto:U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org<mailto:U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ________________________________ _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
