[Zope] Using Chinese Characters

[Christian Wittern]

Hi there,

I am using Zope successfully with Chinese (Traditional) on Windows. For
forward compatibility, I am storing it as UTF-8, which is one storage format
for Unicode/ISO 10646 (aka as UCS). It used to work nice until Zope 2.2,
where some of the display got mangled. I submitted a patch to the Collector
to fix this problem some weeks ago, so hopefully this will go away in the
future. Anothere thing is being able to use ZCatalog: I privately patched
the splitter program, which is used to split strings into words. I am not
yet satisfied with the solution, that's why I did not go public with it.
It's also only tested on my windows box.

All the best,

Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
> Of Tino Wildenhain
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 3:18 AM
> To: Kelvin Cheong
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Using Chinese Characters
>
>
> 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
>
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