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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Symeon Breen wrote:
> We use utf-8 encoding of Unicode - this is good as it is compact as it only
> uses 1 2 3 or 4 bytes depending on the character value in the unicode set.
> Also 1-127 is the same as regular ascii. - For us it is only ever single or
> double bytes, it just stores it in the field, so for instance the character
> Ż is stored as c5 bb.
>
> I don't think Selects and lists etc would work on such data unless you have
> nls configured, but we don't do many selects in our systems and certainly
> not on any fields that would have utf-8 in them.
>
> For viewing - so long as your emulator is set up for utf-8 it will view the
> data correctly, if you switch your emulator to an extended acii type
> character encoding it will give you control characters.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Neil Richards
> Sent: 14 September 2010 17:51
> To: U2 Users List
> Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses
>
> Symeon, How are you storing unicode in your regular files? I thought to go
> multibyte you need to turn on NLS?
>
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> [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-----
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> [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
>
>
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