Thank you Bhaskar, and I did in fact notice the problem with $L() in GTM. Also, the character matching lower case to upper case had to be done (thank you Hellevi :). I also need to do something with collation, and dates and commas vs. decimal points.
At some point, I am going to want to tackle the soundex routine as well. But, while I am too busy sticking my foot into my oral orifice, trying to document what I am doing and stuff. It has fallen by the wayside for a couple of weeks :) Manolis On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 23:34 -0400, K. S. Bhaskar wrote: > I received an off-line e-mail suggesting that I had not fully responded > to questions about Greek support in GT.M today. > > The answer is to use a UI (terminal or terminal emulator) with the 8 > bit character set ISO 8859-7 (e.g., see > http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#ISO-8859-7 or > http://www.kostis.net/charsets/iso8859.7.htm). GT.M doesn't yet support > Unicode, but any 8-bit character set can be stored in a GT.M database - > all you have to do is get it in and out. In fact, you can even store > Unicode in the database, but until Unicode support is added to GT.M, > there will be awkwardness such as $L() returning a length in bytes > rather than a length in characters. > > A collation module (described in the Programmers Guide) may have to be > written so that fields like names of people, towns, medications, etc., > are appear in the culturally correct order. > > -- Bhaskar > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
