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[Joseph Annino]

The MySQL docs have a whole chapter about these issues:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Character_sets.html

I think MySQL handles these things in a simpler manner than Oracle.

On 10/2/02 1:59 PM, "bruce at mtiglobal.com" <bruce at mtiglobal.com> wrote:

> I'll probably be using MySQL  -- Oracle is expensive and my friend's
> company is not that big yet.  As for unicode, the servers are physically
> located in Taiwan and much of the translation work deals with Chinese, so
> dealing with unicode won't be too much of a problem.  I'm sure most of the
> problems one runs into dealing with unicode have already been dealt with.
> 
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>> I wrote my opnion before, but I think it lost in the talk at nyphp.org. I
>> use oracle as the backend dabase,  but charset has to be set to utf8
>> when you create a databse, you can use this charset for all languages in
>> oracle. There are two ways to process mitiple languages in php, one is
>> you have two sest of codes put into two different directories. another
>> is you can use a very very long arrary to hold all languages, then print
>> them out depened on the "locale" variable.
>> 
>>  Joseph Annino wrote:I've had some luck with PHP and unicode, even
>> without explicit support for
>> it in the language. I used mysql as the database backend, and used vlib
>> template to generate all my pages. Unicode text would pass through all
>> of these unharmed, and you could even do searches containing unicode
>> characters. Using a template system like vlib template, creating
>> versions of the site for different languages is as simple as using a
>> different template file. Just make sure you put a tag in the head
>> section of the HTML template to set the encoding appropriately, and use
>> some GET or session variable to specify the language.
>> 
>> Depending on what level of internationalization support you need, this
>> may be enough. You can get data in and out regardless of encoding so
>> long as you maintain consistent throughout.
>> 
>> On 9/26/02 10:42 AM, "Hans Zaunere" wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> --- bruce at mtiglobal.com wrote:
>>>> I'm going to work on a site for a friend's translation company. His
>>>> company translates technical documents in 30+ asian/european
>>>> languages.
>>>> The site will be to market his company in different countries as well
>>>> as
>>>> have services for his translators.
>>>> 
>>>> I've just begun to look through the tutorial on internationalization
>>>> at
>>>> java.sun.com as I begin thinking on the architecture of this site. Is
>>>> there any similar documentation/tutorial online for php?
>>> 
>>> There's a mailing list dedicated for the project:
>>> http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
>>> 
>>> And the project itself:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-i18n/
>>> 
>>>> Do any of you have experience developing multilingual web sites? If
>>>> yes, have you used JSP, PHP, or any other technology for this?
>>> 
>>> I haven't done this sort of thing on this scale, but I have played
>>> around with the php.net/recode functions a bit and some of the
>>> different encodings. I know that there's a few people on this list
>>> that have used the internationalization before, too.
>>> 
>>> H
>>> 
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>> Regards
>> 
>> Mark Jia
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