Re: [tlug] Big5 Vs. Unicode Vs. Netscape 4.x Vs. deadline

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 20:36, Edward Middleton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:05, Jonathan Q wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 May 2003 00:42, Katsuhiko Momoi wrote:
> > 
> > > http://wp.netscape.com/eng/intl/basics.html#setup
> > 
> > This is a very useful page, thanks for the link, and thanks to
> > everyone who replied.
> > 
> > The problem is now pretty much resolved, except for one issue:
> > When trying to do Chinese input in Netscape 4 (including 
> > Chinese version 4.51), input to fields in forms all come up as question
> > marks, although everything else on the page is displayed correctly
> > in Unicode.  The OS is English Windows XP, with East Asian language
> > support and input methods for PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong installed.
> 
> >From what I understand reading from various XML lists and my own
> experimentation this is why you don't use Unicode if you want it to work
> in older versions of Netscape.  From what I gather the early versions of
> Netscape are only localized(i.e. Big5) not internationalized (i.e.
> Unicode).  If someone has worked out how to do it I would be very
> interested to here but if the deadline is tomorrow I would not waste
> time trying.  You will have much less problems if you filter your output
> to Big5 after processing.

This* is might be useful.

File o = new File("output.html")
FileOutputStream tmpout = new FileOutputStream(o);
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new
				OutputStreamWriter(tmpout,"Big5");

It converts Unicode to Big5.

*p425 CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde ISBN 1-56592-224-7
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Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>