Dear Harry,
I discussed with my colleague, Mitsuharu Nagamori, on the prototype.
Here is some comments/questions maily from multilingual point of view.
1. Are you using mySQL or Postgres as your DB tool?
In our understanding, Unicode is still on mySQL's to-do list, but it is
not implemented yet.
2. Your UI seems not to be encoded in Unicode.
For example, Chinese text of your prototype is encoded in GB2312 but
not Unicode (UTF-8). At least, on the browser side, the text is
encoded in GB. Are you automatically converting Unicode to GB?
3. The prototype seems to have only English descriptions in the database
at this time.
We are assuming you'll load non-English reference descriptions in near
future onto the prototype. Is this correct?
4. You mentioned that Chinese text on the UI is not a correct
one, but you had better use proper text even for the prototype.
For example, the menu item in "language preference" means "Creator" but
not "Chinese".
Cheers,
Shigeo Sugimoto & Mitsuharu Nagamori
ULIS
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