Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Frontier 6 and Double-byte Characters

Author:	Lixian B. Chiu
Posted:	4/3/1999; 4:09:07 PM
Topic:	Frontier 6 and Double-byte Characters
Msg #:	4781 (In response to 4761)
Prev/Next:	4780 / 4782

This would be a major change to Frontier. The more I read about Double-Byte characters, the more I am afraid that it can be forced into Frontier. For one, while one is using double-byte character, active URL cannot be used, and to make this happen, the core of Frontier will have to be changed.

I currently use UTF-8 to store all my CJK text, and convert the UTF-8 to classic CJK encoding on the finalFilter, and it works great since the UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII (You can serve UTF-8 directly if you want. But on pages that require form submission, like a DG, you will need to concern about whether the users can submit UTF-8 text or not).

Entering UTF-8 text is trickier. There are two ways to do it:

1) Edit the text externally on a Unicode editor. 2) Enter them in classic CJK encoding, but make a script to convert any selected object's encoding into UTF-8.

While I am on this topic, I would like to ask if anyone know of a way to convert classic CJK encoding into UTF-8 on a PC. I used a Mac, and the above method works because there is a OSAX that does that. Is there anything like that available on a PC?

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