Dear Shigeo,
Sorry I am late getting back to you. I have been trying to catch-up from
vacation. I will try and answer your questions. I am using both mysql and
postgres. The prototype that is at
http://wip.dublincore.org:8080/registry/Registry is using mysql, but will be
switched over to postgres in the near future (my test system uses postgres
now).
You are correct that mysql does not support unicode. Postgres does though,
and eor will work with either. The prototype UI is not in unicode, yet. It
is encoded with the local encodings, and the text that is there (as you
noticed) has no meaning. I plan to convert the UI to unicode once it is
complete and have been able to store the metadata in unicode.
I prefer the unicode approach because it will give us additional
flexibility. We can accomplish the same thing using local encodings, but it
has negative effects on the UI and forces us to use a different DB for each
encoding (mysql does support this). Any chance you could provide a local
encoding for one of the DBCS languages? I believe postgres can convert this
to unnicode when it is stored, but I have had trouble creating it.
Best Regards,
Harry Wagner
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> From: Sugimoto Shigeo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: Re: Prototype Changes
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> 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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