Colin Hill wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Stephen, > We haven't had anyone who could throughly test this. Scoop can serve >content using alternate character sets such as UTF-8 but and the >database back end can support double byte character sets so it likely >would work. Short answer: I don't know. Long answer: there's nothing in >Scoop that would prevent it, and if you run into problems with it please >let us know so we can make the necessarily corrections. > > I've modified hulver.com to support utf-8. There are some functions in scoop that break utf-8 characters as they assume ASCII characters. Fortunately there are only a few of these. The "demoronize" function is the one that sticks in my memory, but there may be others. The biggest problem I've had is with mySql bugs. The version of mySql I'm running against at the moment will cut off text fields when it sees certain utf-8 characters. This is triggered by some Chinese characters that I've seen evidence of. You need a minimum of mysql 4.1, and you need to convert all your tables to utf-8. The easiest way I found to do that is to run mysqldump, and edit the file to change the language of the table from ascii or latin to utf-8. Mismatched collations will cause mySql errors so you need to be careful. >That said, there are, in a few places, hard coded English language error >messages and similar items which might preclude it's immediate adoption >for a foreign language site however there aren't any core issues other >than that. There was, for a time, a Spanish language Scoop site out >there but it seems to have disappeared (domain no longer registered). > >Best Regards, >Colin Hill > > > >>Hi, >> >>I would like to know if Scoop supports double-byte-character-set. ( Japanese input and display ) >>Thank you for the time reading my question. >> >>Sincerely, >>Stephen Hsu >>T (1 408) 943 1056 >>F (1 408) 943 1978 >> >> >>