[Zope] Using Chinese Characters

[Kelvin Cheong]

Christian, 

Thanks for the tip. Your help is much appreciated. Further to your reply, I
would like to ask what the differences of UTF-8 are compared to Big5 Code.
Apparently (from my research on Big5) it is the most commonly used unicode
for chinese characters. Kindly advice.


Thank you once again.


Regards,
amoebia.


Christian Wittern writes:

> 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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