Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
- Subject: Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
- From: Þór Sigurðsson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:11:03 +0000
- Thread-topic: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
And the price goes to Hugi Thordarson and Bogdan Zlatanov :) Thanks both of you - very much a "Nail, meet Hammer. Hammer, Nail!" moment :)
Takk kærlega fyrir! Tack så mycket! Thank you very much! 谢谢您!! ありがとうございます :)
Regards,
Þór
On 11.3.2013, at 09:01, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
> Hi Þór!
> You can either stick this in your Application's Properties file:
>
> er.extensions.ERXApplication.DefaultEncoding=utf-8
>
> …or this in your application's constructor:
>
> setDefaultEncoding( "UTF-8" );
>
> Cheers,
> - hugi
>
> // Hugi Thordarson
> // http://www.godurkodi.is/
>
On 11.3.2013, at 09:02, Bogdan Zlatanov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You probably have already tried this, but take a look here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WebObjects/Web_Applications/Development/Localization_and_Internationalization
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 11.3.2013, at 08:50, Þór Sigurðsson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Xavier,
>>
>> Thank you for your input.
>>
>> My browser is set to auto-detection (Normally I use Chrome, but once in a while I fire up other browsers for compatibility tests) - and even if I fix it to UTF-8, it makes no change.
>>
>> Looking at the source, I see that WebObjects itself replaced the chinese letters with question marks (i.e., it's not the browser which is failing on the chinese output - it's my application).
>>
>> Thinking back, I don't recall ever having been able to output asian characters, neither chinese nor japanese in WO...
>>
>> My webpage does contain an utf-8 meta header....
>>
>> headers and start of document:
>>
>> HTTP/1.0 200 Apple WebObjects
>> cache-control: private
>> cache-control: no-cache
>> cache-control: no-store
>> cache-control: must-revalidate
>> cache-control: max-age=0
>> expires: Sun, 10-Mar-2013 12:33:53 GMT
>> content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> pragma: no-cache
>> x-webobjects-loadaverage: 1
>> date: Sun, 10-Mar-2013 12:33:53 GMT
>> content-length: 2693
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <meta charset="utf-8">
>>
>> one thing I notice: The document is presenting itself as UTF-8, but the server (java/WO) is presenting the root as latin-1 (iso88591). Now I can't imagine that being any other than a problem. Then the question remains - where to change that to turn it into a fully-fledged UTF8 service ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Þór
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11.3.2013, at 08:04, Dev WO wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The first thing you could check, is forcing the page to display as UTF-8 in your browser (usually through the View>Text Encoding menu).
>>> If it displays the Chinese text correctly, it means you are missing a configuration somewhere:
>>> -do you have something like <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> in your page HTML head section?
>>> -Are you using Wonder? (it should default to UTF-8 I think or there's a property for that).
>>>
>>> It shouldn't be a big issue, your setup seems pretty much as it should be.
>>>
>>> Xavier
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing an application that is translated into Icelandic, English and Chinese.
>>>>
>>>> I have a PostgreSQL database, defined as such:
>>>>
>>>> List of databases
>>>> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
>>>> -----------+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------------------
>>>> thor | thor | UTF8 | is_IS | is_IS |
>>>>
>>>> I have _all_ of my project set to use UTF-8 as well.
>>>>
>>>> A sample of the database translation strings is as such:
>>>>
>>>> thor=# select * from onlanguagetranslations where key='log_in';
>>>> id | lang | key | translation
>>>> ----+------+--------+-------------
>>>> 25 | 1 | log_in | 24
>>>> 26 | 2 | log_in | 25
>>>> 27 | 3 | log_in | 26
>>>> (3 rows)
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> thor=# select * from onlanguagetranslationentry where translationid in (24, 25, 26);
>>>> id | revision | revisiondate | translation | translationid
>>>> ----+----------+---------------------+-------------+---------------
>>>> 26 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | Log In | 24
>>>> 27 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | Innskrá | 25
>>>> 28 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | 身份登录 | 26
>>>> (3 rows)
>>>>
>>>> The database is clearly correct ( I can dump it to a file and edit in a editor - SubEthaEdit - which identifies it as UTF8)
>>>>
>>>> I use a component which display part ( html ) is simply "<wo:str value="$translation" parseHTML="false"/>" and the translation function reads the language translation based on an input key and the session language setting.
>>>>
>>>> When I display the output in a browser, the English translation shows fine ( no wonder..), the Icelandic one does also show just fine, but the Chinese one only shows "????" instead of "身份登录".
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know some magic trick I may perform, sans sacrificing a goat or my firstborn.. ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Þór
>>>>
>>>>
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