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

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 12:40:56 EDT


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: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Sneid
  Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:10 PM
  To: unicode@unicode.org
  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:
    a.. Which datatypes have you chosen to store your the Japanese
Characters and the other characters?
    b.. What about the national character set? Did you choose American?
    c.. What the possible problems that may arise when outputing the
characters on the web pages?
    d.. Has anyone post a demo application where i can have a look?
  Best Regards,
  Sneid



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