Dr. Bones;
I know what you are going through. You have hit one of the fatal flaws
of UNICODE, control character (values 0-31, 127) octets (octet=8 bits). You
might look at ISO-10646, a proposal put forward by the Chinese to
encorporate all of the world's major languages under a four octet (32 bits
per character) character code. One of the other problems with UNICODE is
that it is heavily Euro-centric and has given marginal thought to the
non-Latin languages (Asian languages have been heavily co-opted). UNICODE
is a 2 octet (8 bit/octet or a 16 bit code) code and provides a strong drive
to get everybody's character set crammed into that space. The only way they
can do that is to employ control codes. Most devices are designed to
support only a single octet or two octet characters. ISO-10646 specifically
avoids the use of control octets. All charcter representations are made
with regular octets
Unfortunately, few systems have accepted the ISO-10646 arrangement (which
actually contains all of UNICODE as a series of planes within it).
Hopefully as more organizations like yours demand representation, ISO-10646
will emerge to supercede UNICODE. As for MUMPS, GT.M does not necessarily
support ISO-10646, but potentially, it could. The MUMPS standard was
written with a vague description of what a character is, one octete, two
octets, or 4 octets? It is not specified. This makes MUMPS the ideal
platform to bridge across the UNICODE/ISO-10646 divide.
Hope that helps;
Chris Richardson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doctor Bones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:04 AM
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Unicode, Non-english characters and VistA and
other ID means than Social Security
This applies to SemiViva .4 on Linux
I was trying to enter some information in Greek.
I was trying to make a Ward.
And it would not let me use Greek Characters. It told me that control
characters are illegal.
Select ADT System Definition Menu Option: WArd Definition Entry/Edit
Select WARD LOCATION NAME: ÎÎÎÎÎÎÎ The input value contains contro
l characters.
Is there anyway around this?
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I know not more than one issue per email but it is related.
I don't want to use Social Security Numbers as ID's
In Greece they use ID Cards which are usualy like Î43242
Or, say I want to use something else entirely.
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.... oh yeah...
Study....
Manolis
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