At 02:57 PM 5/8/00 +0100, David Crowther wrote:
>Hello CF-Talk people.
>
>I am currently constructing a European portal site in English that will
>eventually be translated into 10-12 different languages.
>
>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with multi language web
>sites written in ColdFusion, and could offer any advice/tips on how to
>structure my files and coding.
If you are targeting languages with double-byte character sets, you will
have a problem. See the post below.
Gregory M. Saunders, Ph.D.
Senior Design Architect
Cognitive Arts Corporation (http://www.cognitivearts.com)
120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 1520
Chicago, IL 60606
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Watts)
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: double-byte chars and nvarchar types
>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:57:11 -0500
>
>> Does CF support double-byte character sets?
>
>No, it only supports ASCII text.
>
>> Does it work happily with SQL Server's nchar, ntext, and
>> nvarchar data types? I've seen several previous posts
>> saying to convert "nvarchar" to "varchar", but I just
>> tried using nvarchar, and it seemed to work fine.
>
>As long as you don't actually put any Unicode text in your n' fields, CF
>should be able to read the data from those fields. ASCII text is a subset of
>Unicode, in a manner of speaking. As a general recommendation, though, you
>don't want to allow the possibility of putting something in the fields that
>CF can't deal with, which is why you shouldn't use Unicode data types in CF.
>
>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
>http://www.figleaf.com/
>voice: (202) 797-5496
>fax: (202) 797-5444
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