[farsiweb]Re: FarsiWeb digest, Vol 1 #189 - 1 msg
Hi, All these problems with the Arabic script makes me a believer in changing our alphabet to a Latin-based one and getting rid of all these unnecessary headaches :-) ... -FariborzThere may be some other better ways for easy life :) bye, Hamid
Re: [farsiweb]unicode fields in database
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, FK wrote: All these problems with the Arabic script makes me a believer in changing our alphabet to a Latin-based one and getting rid of all these unnecessary headaches :-) The whole point is: all other languages have similiar problems, including those written in Latin. The main difference, is usually that there is not enough market for Persian abilities in software. Just some examples: Swedish sorts 'v' and 'w' as one letter. Turkish and Azeri have different capitalization rules than the other languages, since they have two different 'i's. Slovak treats 'ch' as a single letter sorted between 'c' and 'd'. Hungarian sorts 'czz' as it were 'czcz'. French needs a ligated 'oe' letter, which does not even exist in ISO-8859-1, ... IMHO, the Latin script will not solve the problems, it just adds another complexity dimension. roozbeh ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
Re: [farsiweb]unicode fields in database
ON SAT NOVEMBER 9 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] WROTE: Still, I'm curious. How come everyone on this discussion board is using the Latin alphabet? :-) Well, most discussions here are also in English. Should everyone in Iran switch over to English? Going back to the original point, would you explain how switching to the Latin alphabet solves the Farsi text sorting problem in a database? ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
Re: [farsiweb]unicode fields in database
As far as I can tell, you HTML doesn't have any notion of fields. If you mean the letters Peh, Gaf, Farsi Yeh, etc, they can be referenced in HTML pages as "#x"+hexcode+";". Farsi Yeh becomes "#x06cc;", for example.OK I knew this, but I want to know when we want to represent a database unicode field in an ASP page(finally an HTML formatted page) is any more efficient way than converting them dynamically from Unicode to HTML entity code. I'm sorry I don't know ASP. But you can also use UTF-8 in your HTML page and encode the Persian letters as two bytes. Farsi Yeh becomes 0xDB 0x8C, for example. roozbeh ASP works very well while using unicode fields in SQL Server. Use following style for your asp page to make your page in UTF-8 . No conversion is needed to use. The most important part is the first line.The output of this ASP page will be like as Roozbeh said . It will not use "#x"+hexcode+";" style. %@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%html lang="fa" dir="rtl" headmeta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/head % Response.Write(put your database field here) % body /body/html Best Regards Jalal Abedinejad
[farsiweb]Persian Unicode Combobox in HTML
Dear all, As you know when we use a combobox in a HTML, if it contains English content , when we type on the combobox the selected option of the combo changes to the nearest option we have typed . For example when we want to search for our country in a country combobox we type "i","r","a" , then the combo box will select Iran for us. My problem is that when I use a combobox with persian content (UTF-8 content-type) this feature is no longer available. I have used the http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/farsitools/php/date/scripts/farsi.js?rev=1.1.1.1content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markupjavascript file in my html to overright the keyboardmap but it did not work. I'll be happy if anybody here had encountered this problem and solved the problem. I think I must use some javascript code to change selected field of the combobox when something is typed on the combo. Thanks Jalal Abedinejad
