Morning/Evening All,
I'm interested in hearing about the system configurations and software
processes that our __non U.S. English developers__ are using to support
their web sites in general (i.e. how you are handling locale and encoding
issues - as you may know, these are two distinct issues). The process will
no-doubt involve considerations for input as well as output (although
Western European ISO or Windows encoding users will have less trouble until
they encounter UTF-8 encoding).
This includes:
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* Your operating system's encoding, for example, do you develop a German
site on a U.S. English version of Windows 2000, or an English version of
your site on a Japanese version of your O.S.?
* Issues of your source-code/input files' encoding formats - if you
create a source-file .cfm/.htm/.java files, what editor do you use and are
there any tricky things you have to watch out for before deploying your
application?
* Do you use the HTML META tag content-type/MIME charset directive?
* Do you use the <CFCONTENT> tag?
* Do you ever deal with Unicode, at any stage of your development
lifecycle (Java and C# strings are UCS-2 unicode formatted) and any of it's
encoding formations (UTF-8, 16, UCS-2 etc..)?
* Do you send HTTP header encoding directives, perhaps through a
servlet? (note, these override HTML META tag directives)
* Do you have any special date-time and currency string presentation
considerations that are not handled by CF?
* Do you store unicode or non-latin char sets in databases?
* Do you have difficulty co-ordinating the encoding of content that is
dynamic amongst that which is static?
* Have you implemented a multi-lingual strategy for your web
application, using XML and UTF-8?
Please REPLY OFF TOPIC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thanks and regards,
Pete
Peter Farland
Software Engineer
Macromedia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1 617 219 2207
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