Re: Accented Characters.

From: Stefan Schmiedl <s_at_xss.de>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:03:56 +0200

Hi Gene,

Gene LeFave (2004-05-20 13:33):

> 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.

Being from Germany, I probably qualify :-)

>
> 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.

as long as you're not leaving this area, you're quite safe with with
the native Windows codepage 1252, which is basically ISO8859-15, which
is basically ISO8859-1 plus the d2n Euro sign.

>
> 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.

It's not as hard as it looks from your place.

>
> 2) The second problem is how best to send the character to the browser?

put this line in the <head> of your HTML page. If it does not work,
your clients should upgrade their browsers, as it's a long standing
part of the HTML standards.

> 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.

Searching is no problem as long as you stay within the encoding.
Sorting might be a problem depending on whether your sorting is locale
aware or based on character code.

HTH,
s.

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Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 13:05:18 PDT

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