RE: multilingual web site: Oracle8.06 and Cold Fusion 4.5/5

[Carl W. Brown]

Sneid,

 

Oracle 8.06 needs the 8.0.6.1.0 ODBC driver if you want to use ODBC.  This must be downloaded.  The data base must be built as a UTF-8 data base.  You can retrieve data in code page but the DB must be built to store data in UTF-8.  Field sizes must be reviewed.  If you use UTF-8 CLOB data is stored in UCS-2.

 

You might seriously consider upgrading Oracle to a newer release with better Unicode support.

 

I have not tested ColdFusion.

 

Carl 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sneid
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:10 PM
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Subject: multilingual web site: Oracle8.06 and Cold Fusion 4.5/5

Hi Everybody,

 

Has anyone tried to set up a multilingual web site with Oracle and ColdFusion?

Your help will be most welcomed. Thank you very much for responding.

 

Well, here are some questions to start with:

• Which datatypes have you chosen to store your the Japanese Characters and the other characters?
• What about the national character set? Did you choose American?
• What the possible problems that may arise when outputing the characters on the web pages?
• Has anyone post a demo application where i can have a look?

Best Regards,

Sneid