Hello
I develop a Web Application using ASP on IIS4/5 with a SQL Server or Oracle database and some Visual Basic COM Components. Our clients use IE a minimum of V4.01.
I have recently been tasked with finding out about the impact Wide Character Languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc) will have on our product. We already cater for multiple languages by storing all application strings in a series of database tables.
The areas I would like some assistance with are;
1) What are the client issues? Is it necessary to have Japanese IE to display Japanese or can a plugin be downloaded (I think IE offers it when necessary).
2) What are the server issues? Do we need to worry about setting things like "codepage" attributes? Do a search for "codepage" on the Microsoft and some ASP sites. What is a codepage, should we make use of it?
3) What are the database platform issues? Can Oracle and SQL Server store these strings? Is any extra work or middleware required?
I know the topis here cover alot of different areas but if anyone could help me out with any I would be very grateful.
Cheers
John
I develop a Web Application using ASP on IIS4/5 with a SQL Server or Oracle database and some Visual Basic COM Components. Our clients use IE a minimum of V4.01.
I have recently been tasked with finding out about the impact Wide Character Languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc) will have on our product. We already cater for multiple languages by storing all application strings in a series of database tables.
The areas I would like some assistance with are;
1) What are the client issues? Is it necessary to have Japanese IE to display Japanese or can a plugin be downloaded (I think IE offers it when necessary).
2) What are the server issues? Do we need to worry about setting things like "codepage" attributes? Do a search for "codepage" on the Microsoft and some ASP sites. What is a codepage, should we make use of it?
3) What are the database platform issues? Can Oracle and SQL Server store these strings? Is any extra work or middleware required?
I know the topis here cover alot of different areas but if anyone could help me out with any I would be very grateful.
Cheers
John