On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:31 PM, viktoras d. wrote:
sorry if I missed a possible hint in any of the previous threads on
unicode. I am having trouble making Revolution correctly display
bignum
unicode entities like unicode characters of Mandarin Chinese. In mysql
database all the unicode strings are encoded with leading ampersand
and
trailing semicolon like this: 西方黃黝魚
These get correctly rendered in any web browser, but Revolution
fails to
display them correctly in a field (I am seting htmltext of field).
Is there any way to fix this?
Viktoras,
I'm jumping in here late, but wanted to add, when you save your
HTMLtext with Chinese characters, you need to make sure than all of
the font tags are saved with it. It seems that when you're using
Unicode embedded in HTML you also have to tell Rev exactly what font
and language to use to display it. It ends up coming out something
like this:
<p><font face="Kai" size="16" lang="zh-
CN">您离开讲国</font></p>
The font face attribute will of course determine the exact font,
therefore the look of the characters. Make sure it's a font that you
can reasonably assume will be on the target computer. The font lang
attribute determines which variant of Chinese you use, Simplified
(mainland) or Traditional (Taiwan primarily). For Simplified use
lang="zh-CN". For Traditional use lang="zh-TW". Note that Simplified
and Traditional Chinese fonts are not interchangeable. There are
Traditional font faces and Simplified font faces.
By the way, here's how to get a list of Simplified vs. Traditional
fonts on your computer:
put the fontNames into tfonts
repeat for each line tFont in tfonts
if the fontLanguage of tFont is "SimpleChinese" then
-- or use this test to find Trad.
-- if the fontLanguage of tFont is "Chinese" then
put tFont & cr after tList
end if
end repeat
Having said all that, it might be better in the long run to store your
Chinese text in your database as UTF-8. To do so, just put your
unicode text into a variable and upload it to a database:
put unidecode(the unicodeText of fld "MyUniFld","UTF8") into myVar
## store the contents of myVar in the database
Then when you are retrieving it, you reverse the process. (You have to
make sure that the textFont for the destination field is set to a
unicode-compatible font first. Usually if you just put it back into
the field you got it from it's fine.)
set the unicodeText of fld "myUniFld" to
uniencode(myDataFromDB,"UTF8")
As I've said before, Unicode and Rev play together fairly nicely if
you understand some basic concepts and know Rev's quirks. See my
article at http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.php for more
details.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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