Argh... Unicode in HTML problems
by We are trying to make our webapp more international, and currently support English, Spanish, Portugeuse, German, French, and a bunch of other languages. ISO8859-1 seems to be a good enough code set for these languages.
We will soon have to support Greek. o_O It's a completely different code set, ISO8859-7.
So, my question is, should we change code sets based on user locale, or just go with UTF-8? We're running all Java, so all Strings are internally Unicode.
If I try to switch to UTF-8, it seems like lots of characters change from being renderable into a square character, or a question mark. Is this just because my machine can't display those characters? Do I have to convert all Strings into HTML entities like so? ` Or can I just display them normally like so? –
So confusing...
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hey i read this book, it had a section on unicode, not just technical details but over view, it might help you answer some questions you can conclude yourself
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
so far ive never had to deal with it, the funny thing is, i actually still deal with IBM EBCDIC here, the less famous father of ASCII
I know that if you don't have the proper character sets on your system then yes you would see a lot of [] [] [] []
ask the brothers who code www.watchtower.org. They're super international. Even intergalactic planetary.
nice, they made something called MEPS-16 which should work great! thanks
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but how do they translate the WEBSITE, (i'm not talking about the Mags and Literature)
LOL
hahaha
yikes thank goodness i haven't had to deal with this yet, sorry bud