ahmed shaheen wrote:
Hi allAs a generic comment, I think it is simpler to use UTF-8 encoding for the whole Portal, since then the portal will be able to represent any Unicode character *at the same time*, and thus your portal will be able to show words in any language. For instance, my full name, "Santiago Gala P�rez" (é) has a character that cannot be represented in any "local" locale except ISO-8859-1..15, but it fits nicely in UTF-8, toghether with japanese, arab, chinese or even ancient native american languages. UTF-8 is the default for XML (thus for xhtml), and your portal will be accesible by any reasonable browser for any reasonable use.
we are trying now to arabize jetspeed and we are facing some problems.
We are using jetspeed1.4b3 with Tomcat 4.1.12 On WinXP
Our steps were:
1) writing a (JetspeedLocalization_ar.properties) file with windows notepad(ansi encoding)
2) adding some changes to the LocalizationTool.class to return the string with WINDOWS-1256 encoding
3) changing the encodings and charactersets in all files : jr.p tr.p fulcrum.p velocity.p
these steps were successfully done and arabic strings appeared correctlty.
I think about localization more like message translation than Character Encoding translation. *But*, this does no mean that Jetspeed should not work with any locale supported by java.
then we tried to arabize the content retrieved from XML files As .psml files (eg. tabs' titles in tabpane layout)If I remember correctly, the specification of locale in the xml preamble *must* conform to a standard (I don't know from my head the url) and very possibly WINDOWS-1265 is not part of this standard, or it hsould be expressed in a precise case. But I could be wrong. Look for "xml preamble locale" or something similar.
but it seems that there is a problem in reading and writing arabic in XML files. Did anybody face a similar problem .. we think that the problem
in the XML APIs that deals with files.
we have done a lot of trials but where system dependent (change the language in RegionalSittings to Ar)
and not working perfectly because it conflicts with previous working steps.
Anyhelp will be appreciated.
Ahmed Shaheen
NileClix(www.nileclix.com.eg)
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