Forums / Developer / Is it possible to run a Mutli-lingual site without using UTF-8?
Brendan Pike
Saturday 18 October 2003 6:16:09 am
I wish to run a site in english and russian and don't really wish to upgrade to mysql 4.1. I have enabled Russian for testing and have found that text within the body areas works and translates correclty as do my folder names (which I use for menus) but I found that info-page titles don't and rather appear as "Ко.." etc, even though the body works. Also the language .ts file doesn't work and only gets rendered as question marks unless I switch UTF-8 on; but doing this causes the Online Editor to not load.
Can anyone explain if it is possible without moving to postgresql or mysql4.1?
Thanks
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Jan Borsodi
Wednesday 22 October 2003 5:47:29 am
It is possible to run multiple languages on one database without using UTF-8, however to do so you need to use a charset that supports all languages.As for your site which needs english and russian you can use the koi8-r charset, it contains bother (basic) latin and cyrillic characters.
The unicode characters 1050 and 1086 can be found on this page: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/cyrillic.htmlI also looked in the share/codepages/ko8-r file and the characters are present there (in hex).
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Sunday 09 November 2003 7:07:59 pm
Thanks Jan, only just found this response. (the forums should auto notify the authour of a forums thread IMHO)
I actually moved to MySQL 4.1 as I thought I had no other choice. So going through a little pain with upgrading our 2.2 sites at the moment. I have noticed that the share/codepages/utf-8 file is missing in the 3.2-3 release though. Does one exist I can download somewhere?
andreas spahr
Monday 17 November 2003 7:49:55 am
Online Editor and UTF-8, it works: The Online Editor did not load, because the JavaScript file ezeditor.js is not an unicode file. You have to save the file extension/ezdhtml/design/standard/javascripts/ezdhtml/ezeditor.js with the normal windows editor as an utf-8 file (doing so with File->Save As->Coding: select utf-8)
After that I uploaded this file to the linux system via ftp and it worked!
Regards
Monday 17 November 2003 6:35:25 pm
At first I was confused what you meant by windows editor, then I realised even notepad was sufficient. You were correct of course and now it works fine!
Thanks so much Andreas.
btw, I still get the error, share/codepages/utf-8 is missing but it doesn't seem to stop anything working?
Script start
Module start 'content'
Module end 'content'
Script end
Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs