[Zope] Using Chinese Characters

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:18:17 +0200


Hi Kelvin,

Kelvin Cheong wrote:
> 
> i was wondering how i can use chinese characters with Zpe on Linux. does
> anyone know how? According to my "mild" research so far, i found out that
> Big5is a 2-byte code and is a part of ISO-10646/Unicode. It also seems to
> be the de-facto for traditional chinese characters. There're also Unicode
> CJK and GB. But GB is for China, which uses simplified chinese characters.
> And CJK includes both Big5 and GB.

classic zope is built on python 1.52 and does not naturally support
unicode.
But there is a light on the horizont:

http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring

I have a vision of everything working together for localizing and 
internationalisation ;-)

Regards
Tino