Re: help needed: Non-english characters in WebCatalog
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15727
interpreted = N
texte = Per:Searching for those characters should work, however, I agree, that it may not recognize the upper/lower case pairs properly. This is very easy to check and can be fixed in 2.1 if necessary. Could you send me the character pairs in a text file (johnh@smithmicro.com).I assume you are using our character translation to automatically convert the characters to the &xxx; equivalents?John >I have been trying out WebCatalog for some time now, and I am very >satisfied with the speed it delivers. But before our company is buying the >product, I have to know if there is a workaround to the problems I have >encountered. > >Our company is located in Norway, and most our customers are Norwegian. To >be located in Norway includes the use of the three extra characters we have. > >The html-entitity equivalents of these caharacters are (UPPER/lower case) : >Ø / ø >Æ / æ >Å / å > >When I use these characters in my database, there is a problem searching >for them. > >It looks as if WebCatalog search for a match of the ISO-latin1 equivalent >of the characters typed into a form. This is causing WebCatalog to not >recognize the Norwegian characters in a database in Mac-character format. > >I did a workaround on this by translating the file into ISOlatin1. This >solved the problem when it came to same case matching, but WebCatalog is >obviously not aware what the corresponding upper/lower case of the >norwegian characters are. > >Any ideas on what may solve my problem? >I am really determined to buy WebCatalog if I could solve this problem, but >this is very limiting to the application of WebCatalog with this language, >so I might have to look somewhere else. > >Sincerely, >Per Christian Lied John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast Software eCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com
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Per:Searching for those characters should work, however, I agree, that it may not recognize the upper/lower case pairs properly. This is very easy to check and can be fixed in 2.1 if necessary. Could you send me the character pairs in a text file (johnh@smithmicro.com).I assume you are using our character translation to automatically convert the characters to the &xxx; equivalents?John >I have been trying out WebCatalog for some time now, and I am very >satisfied with the speed it delivers. But before our company is buying the >product, I have to know if there is a workaround to the problems I have >encountered. > >Our company is located in Norway, and most our customers are Norwegian. To >be located in Norway includes the use of the three extra characters we have. > >The html-entitity equivalents of these caharacters are (UPPER/lower case) : >Ø / ø >Æ / æ >Å / å > >When I use these characters in my database, there is a problem searching >for them. > >It looks as if WebCatalog search for a match of the ISO-latin1 equivalent >of the characters typed into a form. This is causing WebCatalog to not >recognize the Norwegian characters in a database in Mac-character format. > >I did a workaround on this by translating the file into ISOlatin1. This >solved the problem when it came to same case matching, but WebCatalog is >obviously not aware what the corresponding upper/lower case of the >norwegian characters are. > >Any ideas on what may solve my problem? >I am really determined to buy WebCatalog if I could solve this problem, but >this is very limiting to the application of WebCatalog with this language, >so I might have to look somewhere else. > >Sincerely, >Per Christian Lied John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing Pacific Coast Software eCommerce / Web Developer Tools http://www.smithmicro.com
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