If youre doing everything in UTF-8, and you don't need to convert anything from one encoding to another, you should be able to do this, I think.
Here's a chunk from a message posted to this list earlier this year which gives you the basics about dealing with multi-byte characters. (Japanese encodings in this case, but UTF-8 would be the same as far as I know.) ------------------------------- >From Anthony M. Humphreys RE: Witango-Talk: Good be be back, and a big Japanese question 2002-04-24 1) Turn OFF Tango's encodeResults , that is <@ASSIGN SCOPE=system NAME=encodeResults VALUE="false"> as this will prevent Tango from mangling High ASCII values into like turning e into #233; 2) Re-write the HTTP header to include the actual character set you are using. By default Tango is set to write the header with iso-8859-1 3) Use caution when using the built-in e-mail action. It's design is ONLY for iso based 8-bit character sets. Double byte character sets may or may not work as expected. You may find a way to get the action to work, but use it at your own risk 4) The Tango editor still has some unexpected strangenesses when working with nvarchar (unicode) datatypes. You will need to modify any builder apps that used non-8-bit character datatypes. ------------------------------- Also bear in mind that meta-tags dealing with string processing (<@LENGTH>, <@REGEX>, etc.) are liable to misbehave. For example, <@LENGTH> will give you the number of bytes in a string, not the number of characters, which may or may not be what you want. If only some of your data uses UTF-8, and you need to convert between different encodings, things get a bit more problematic. Let me know if you need more info on this. Good luck, Ed Edgar The Princeton Review International Hosting, Tokyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.review.co.jp http://www.princetonreviewhk.com http://www.tprthai.com http://www.princetonreview.com.tw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandano, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2002?11?7? 4:55 Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Unicode | Yes, | | It didn't seem to work. | | Pete | | -----Original Message----- | From: Ben Johansen [mailto:benj@;pcforge.com] | Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:10 PM | To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk | Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Unicode | | Have you tried this in the header? | <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> | | Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com | Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm | Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Brandano, Peter | Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:03 AM | To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk | Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Unicode | | Thanks Ben, | | I am trying to return a results html page with the text similar to the | following: | | &tango_mmButton=<@VAR l_mmButton SCOPE=local ENCODING=URL>& | | &tango_mmLink=<@VAR l_mmLink SCOPE=local ENCODING=URL>& | | &tango_webButton=<@VAR l_webButton SCOPE=local ENCODING=URL>& | | &tango_webLink=<@VAR l_webLink SCOPE=local ENCODING=URL>& | | &tango_varsLoaded=true& | | | I want my VARS to be encoded as UTF-8 unicode, I am afraid that Tango | may | not support this. I am very worried. | | Pete | | -----Original Message----- | From: Ben Johansen [mailto:benj@;pcforge.com] | Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:33 PM | To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk | Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Unicode | | Hi, | | I have no experience, but found this site. | http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html | or you could go to http://www.unicode.org | | Hope this helps | | Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com | Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm | Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Brandano, Peter | Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:51 AM | To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk | Subject: Witango-Talk: Unicode | | Hi, | | Does anyone know how to use unicode text in Tango results pages? 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