Not much experience, but I have thought about it.
Apache lets you specify the character set, which I believe is also
negotiable. Clearly you might have to modify the witango http header,
though.
I think the bigger issues are associated with collating. How is
indexing and sorting to be handled in the db if its on a
language-specific basis? Maybe there needs to be separate DSNs for
english and Russian so you can collate accordingly.
And the multi-byte languages are a bear. You probably have followed
the never ending swish-e discussion on the lack of UTF support.
On Monday, July 11, 2005, at 11:18 AM, John McGowan wrote:
Thanks for the reply Bill. Those issues are obviously something to
think about.
What about the basic handling of characters that aren't in the latin
character set. Have any experience with that?
/John
Bill Conlon wrote:
Take a look at the apache manual section on content negotiation.
Language is one negotiable element, and you can pull that from the
header to manage this.
But I think there are some potential problems within Witango, date
formatting for example. I believe the language used by Witango is
taken from the environment or the witango user, rather than from the
header. So if your witango runs with 'lang=en-us', you'll always get
'July', instead of 'Juli' for German.
About 4 months ago I posted a feature request related to this.
On Monday, July 11, 2005, at 06:48 AM, John McGowan wrote:
We have a content management system that uses Witango and
MSSQL/MySQL All sites using it have been english sites, but one of
our clients wants to run a Russian site. I am not familiar with
what is required to make something like this work. I am going to
investigate what will need to be done to our applicaiton to support
different languages. I'm not talking about making the CMS support
bilingual sites, here, just the ability to support the editing and
hosting of a site with a different character set.
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