UTF8 in AlphaFive

[tekri]

Hello,
I developing application for company in my country (Slovakia) and I must do it in slovak language. Therefore I must use character with diacritical like �ľ�čť� .
For labels and other text I using &#xxx; convention for example � is &# 225;. It is not very practical, when I must write "n&# 225;zov" instead "n�zov", but I can live with that. Yes, I can use <a5:r>, but this is usefull when two or more languages are used in application, for one is'nt practical.
When I try translate some messages in FileUpload I find out, that &#xxx; is not usable in everywhere. After lot of researching I found solution, which is little bit horrible (look at picture). This http://www.the-art-of-web.com/javascript/escape/ help me.
I understand why I have to use different coding for characters, but it isn't look very nice.

Could anybody advice better sollution?
And <a5:r> doesn't work correctly in this case.

tekri

[Davidk]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

Hey Tekri,

Where are you having problems with the Language Definitions? I've set up a new language, "Slovakian", and added the <a5:r> </a5:r> tags to the "Title" and "Click here" messages of the File Upload Dialog. Attached is the result... seems to work here. Did you change your default language in the OnGridInitialize to

e.tmpl.activeLanguage = "Slovakian"

Is the attached what you're looking for?

[Clipper87]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

David,
If you go to the interactive window and type:

?*html_escape("entr�e") then you'll get the encode value: "entr&eacute;e"

But I remember a a discussion I had with Selwyn where he pointed out that encoding would not be necessary anymore but I have trouble reconstructing it. Will dig into it

[Davidk]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

Here's the link to the wiki "Foreign" Language support page. There's a video in there that walks you through the process.

Overall,

Put in your tags
Create a new language
Set the from
Set the to
Change the default language in your grid

Brilliant.

http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/A5V10+...t+for+Web+apps

[tekri]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

Hey Tekri,

Where are you having problems with the Language Definitions? I've set up a new language, "Slovakian", and added the <a5:r> </a5:r> tags to the "Title" and "Click here" messages of the File Upload Dialog. Attached is the result... seems to work here. Did you change your default language in the OnGridInitialize to

e.tmpl.activeLanguage = "Slovakian"

Is the attached what you're looking for?

I like donkey, using also in language definitions &#xxx; encoding for international characters. I try use characters just typed from keyboard and it's working now. But still, it isn't elegant solution for single non-english language application.

Thanks for advice.

[Davidk]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

Tekri,

Yes, I can see how it would be a bit of work to get it all done, but still nice there's a way. When you're done, would you report back here to let us know how many entries are in your language definition?

Would be really nice if one "File Upload" dialog could inherit from a "changed language" File Upload dialog. Then you would have to set the language tags again. Going to go look into that. You could make a copy of a changed language grid and alter that, but still a bit of work.

[lsprowls]

HTML Escape Tool and Language Definition

If I paste Cyrillic or Arabic text into the HTML Escape tool (http://www.htmlescape.net/htmlescape_tool.html) and then paste the Escaped Result into the Alpha Five Language Definition, the Cyrillic or Arabic text is displayed correctly in a Dialog.

I would like, however, to be able to paste the Cyrillic or Arabic text directly into the Language Definition to eliminate this inconvenient workaround.

[Clipper87]

Re: HTML Escape Tool and Language Definition

Lawrence,
In what component are you working? Can you put some Cyrillic and/or Arabic characters on this board (hope those will display correctly here) or a clear screenshot?

[lsprowls]

Re: HTML Escape Tool and Language Definition

On this page under "Writing system" you'll see some sample Cyrillic and Arabic text. If you copy and paste either into the Dialog Language Definition, you'll see that the text is replaced with question marks. Some of the Latin characters don't paste correctly as well.

The same thing happens if you paste Cyrillic or Arabic text into a field's 'Field Label' property.

[tekri]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

Lawrence,
I fighting a long time with html escape codes, but I' surrend .
Now I'm using <a5:r></a5:r> as tags and text file in unicode and in every grid in OnGridExecute event I add following code:

e.tmpl.encodeLanguageStringAsUTF8 = .f.
e.tmpl.exportColumnHeadingsConvertToUTF8 = .f.
e.tmpl.languageDefinition = file.to_string(".\textSK.txt")

and textSK.txt contain for example:

<a5:r>Enter a new record</a5:r>="Nov� z�znam"
<a5:r>Cancel edits to this record</a5:r>="Vr�tiť sp�ť vykonan� zmeny"
<a5:r>Delete record</a5:r>="Vymazať z�znam"

I editing text file with notepad++ and directly type international characters inside text file.
Text file is stored in directory, where is also grid definitions and publish will copy that file to web folder.

[lsprowls]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

I think your method a) always overrides the default language and b) doesn't allow more than one language.

[tekri]

Re: UTF8 in AlphaFive

you are right partially, because:
a) I have language definition strings at one place
b) it's possible to have several language text file and little modify OnGridExecute event to load apropriate text file based on some condition, for example logged user, retrieve country from ipaddress ...
c) it's easy to send a text file to translator guy for translate