The product I work on here at Oracle supports 30 different languages so I have dealt with this problem in the past.
Two (possibly three) things have to be set up correctly in our environment. First the browser has to be able to render the correct character set (usually not a problem as most people who would receive Japanese email also browse Japanese web sites). Second the application server must have the correct NLS_LANG set. When I want to support all languages I usually just set an environment variable on the application server to NLS_LANG = .UTF8 We use Apache as the foundation for our application server, so I don't think that setting is Oracle specific. And third, the source must be able to product the correct character set, again usually not a problem as the people who are sending Japanese emails tend to type them in as Japanese. :) With my product it means that the database must also support the same character set. Rich "Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have a web-based groupware suite based on the Twiggi project > (http://neddix.dyndns.org/twiggi-gw/index.php). Part of the suite is a > webmail client that works with IMAP. It's not a bad system, over all. > However, there is one part that I can't figure out.... Some of my users > get a lot of e-mail in other languages, especially Japanese. > Unfortunatly, Japanese is one of the few languages that the system > doesn't nativly support. I am looking to be able to either display the > Japenese properly, or have it translated on the fly. The groupware suite > is written in PHP, running on Debian2.2r4, and Apache/1.3.9 > Ben-SSL/1.37. Does anyone have any ideas that would result in people > being able to use the system and read e-mail written in Japenese? > > TIA, > Kenny > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Tact is just *not* saying true stuff" -- Cordelia Chase > > Kenneth E. Lussier > Sr. Systems Administrator > Zuken, USA > PGP KeyID CB254DD0 > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
