I know this is a bit off topic, but I know there are a few non-english speakers
here. Hopefully, someone with more experience in this will come to my
rescue.

I'm trying to add some basic support for other languages in my application. It
is a Foth web server/database app. I want to be able to store and display the
correct accented characters, particularly for French and Spanish.

I have two basic questions:

1) How should strings be stored internally? As far as I can tell I have three
choices, use the OEM symbol set, use the windows symbol set, use the html
convention &#nnn; , or use the [accent][char] convention.

I am completely stumped as to which of these is best.

2) The second problem is how best to send the character to the browser?
Again, the options are use the mime type to specify the symbol set, and send
the characters as binary. Or send the html &#nnn; string.

The problem is complicated by the fact that data will be searched and sorted.
And, of course, I'm handicapped by the fact that I don't even know how to get
these symbols into this email much less my program.

I be grateful to anyone who could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Gene
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Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 11:36:58 PDT