[AccessD] Internationalization, Unicode and Character Sets

HI Jim,
I am very happy hearing someone to describe a problem that I had some months
ago....
The difference between us was that I tried hardly  to do the same for a
client in both Greek and Arabic....
I will never again take any job like this....

Be well
Kostas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lawrence (AccessD)" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Internationalization, Unicode and Character Sets


> Hi Gustav:
>
> <rant mode on>
> Eight months ago, I was brought into a project that required English and
> Japanese. In addition to this the client had kindly bought a full shopping
> cart and affiliate program written in Perl. My job was simply to design
the
> graphical front-end for a web site. The front end was fairly simple but
> attention had to be paid to the back-end.
>
> We had difficulty getting the ISP to upgrade to Perl version 5.x, so that
it
> would recognize encoding. The package was finally completed but for one
> outstanding set of issues. The designer of the Perl code did not use a SQL
> back-end but some kind of flat-base filing system. English worked fine but
> there was no way I could get the Japanese to work, period. None of the
Perl
> sorting or importing routines worked right, not without a complete
re-write.
>
> The current project is now on hold. We did finally move the project to a
PHP
> and SQL back-end arrangement. No-one I know can get the thing resurrected,
> it is so far over budget and I am simply out of time and patience.
>
> In the future, when someone comes to me with a UTF-8 project the price
will
> be triple and that will be after I have under gone a complete mental
> examination.
> <rant mode off>
>
> ...and that is my two cents worth.
> Jim
>
> PS That is a great article/site on Unicode and character sets. :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:07 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Internationalization, Unicode and Character Sets
>
>
> Hi all
>
> Joel Spolsky has some comments on PHP, internationalization, Unicode
> and character sets.
>
> /gustav
>
> ---
>
> From: Joel On Software <fogcreek at whatcounts.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 2003, 1:47:53 AM
> Subject: [JoelOnSoftware] Unicode and Character Sets
>
> When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP
> has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues,
> blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near
> impossible to develop good international web applications,
> I thought, enough is enough.
>
> So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer
> working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters,
> character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm
> going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in
> a submarine. I swear I will.
>
>  The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer
>  Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and
>  Character Sets (No Excuses!)
>
>  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>
> Joel Spolsky
> spolsky at fogcreek.com
>
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