Re: [SLE] Re: German letters...

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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 08:58:39 +0100
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Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:

> It would be nice if it worked, however I never got 8-bit characters
> to show correctly with UTF-8. With LANG set to en_GB and using a
> 8859-15 font for the terminals everything works as it should.

Unfortunately, support isn't yet perfect (although I believe the latest
SuSE distros claim to support UTF8 properly?)

I run SuSE 8.0 on a dual boot Japanese Vaio with Japanese XP. To see the
Kanji / Katakana / Hiragana charcters on the Windows partition I have
this entry in fstab

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0

and I use an xterm like this

LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1" -fw
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1"

which works for the most part.

I work for a company that builds websites and back-end solutions for
motor manufacturers. A few years back we deployed several hundred
websites in a large number of languages for Bentley - naturally, the
design team came up with a re-usable template and the customer insisted
the sites incorporate Flash elements for menus and some content managed
material. This meant that one template had to display everything from
English to Korean, to Japanese to Cyrillic. As it happens, Flash
supports UTF-8 but, unfortunately, much of the material that went in to
the websites was legacy information that was supplied in all kinds of
formats and encodings. In the end I had to set non-unicode character
sets for the HTML pages and manually convert everything for the Flash
movies .. it was a pain, and it's still a pain to maintain .. especially
as our stock Solaris OS only supports a very small number of character
sets and I have to download everything to my Linux box, convert it, and
then upload it again.

http://www.bentleyguaranteed.com/moscow/ru/

As it happens, I've just finished a big project for Ferrari and Maserati
which has a similar goal - to build and maintain every Ferrari and
Maserati dealer's website throughout the world. Unfortunately, once
again, there's a lot of legacy material in Italian, German, French and
English so those languages are using regular European character sets
with UTF8 encoded Flash content. But I will be collecting material for
every other language in UTF8 - it's *so* much easier. The dealers and
importers use a web form to enter text, the pages are encoded using UTF8
so I don't have to mess around with it afterwards and I just put an
.htaccess file in the root of each website that ensures the HTTP headers
specify UTF8 as a the charset for each page served.

http://www.maseratidealers.com/demodealer

I built a Japanese site the other day, but I can't remember the URL ;-)

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