Re: Character Set Problem in ESQL-Taglib

[Ralf Ullrich]

J�rg Walter wrote:

On Thursday, 25. September 2003 17:06, Ralf Ullrich wrote:

 

  I use  AxKit::XSP::ESQL and My::AdressManager (which @ISA
Apache::AxKit::Language::XSP::TaglibHelper) to generate output.
When I use encoding="UTF-8" I get all my umlauts as '?' (using mozilla).
replacing UTF-8 with ISO-8859-1 produces the same result.  In my
home-grown AdressManager Taglib I convert the dbdata before presenting
it with something like
s/�/encode('UTF-8','�')/, and this works of cource event though I#m
still looking for a better way to do this.
   

There is a helper function AxKit::ToUTF8($string) which will convert your data 
from AxExternalEncoding to UTF-8.
 

Thanks a lot, that works. But then my initial asssumption seems to be 
rigth: if you dont use ESQL for database access, you have to care about 
encoding yourself, right?

You can try ESQL from CVS. It has experimental support for automatic 
conversion of your DB data to UTF-8 (unless it detects it is already UTF-8). 
Set AxExternalEncoding ISO-8859-15 (or whatever the correct value is), and go 
for it - your data will appear as UTF-8. 

I tried it and it works great. Think I really should use ESQL then 
instead of my own taglib.

ralf



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