Hi, I really don't want to be a 16th-century conundrum about a '19th-century
ditto'...
But, 'twiddling' with Exhibit, I once again had to battle the lacking
support of nordic letters in the solutions available. Bringing me to the
following questions:
1. Is any work started at Simile regarding internationalization?
2. Has anybody programmatically solved the issue of having to use either
'HTML &'- and/or 'UNIX \'- escapes in the Exhibit JSON-datafiles, hoping to
by-pass the lacking 'non ASCII'-support?
3. Unwilling to reinvent anything available or rather load the project into
Eclipse and step-debug the code; anyone with an idea about where the
JSON-data is read into the Exhibit-code, thus enabling an intercept and
letter replacement -- say, replacing the letter 'å ' with '\u00E5' -- before
end-user presentation?
Per memoria: The issue above might not be seen as a serious problem to
ASCII-based users -- "missing a few tiny dot's here and there, what harm
could that do?". But, as the following exemplifies, it's a great problem to
nordic-speaking users: The proud city of 'Grönköping'
('Grönköping'), correctly entered into a JSON-datafile, is reduced
to either a 'Gr?' or a 'Gr?ping' in Exhibit -- although befitting of
'Grönköping', it's a hard to read abbreviation, at it's best.
Finally, I assumed that the further idea with AJAX/JSON was to simplify
polling information from other sources than the webserver. As the above
exemplifies, it's very hard to do so in Exhibit.
Cheers
Pat
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