RE: UTF8 and Chinese

[Michael McGrady]

UTF-8 works fine with Chinese and everything else.  I am doing it.  It can 
be used, and I do use it, on each JSP page no matter what the language.  I 
am presently using 19 which all work fine with UTF-8.  I wondered about 
that.  And, I am not saying that UTF-8 is always the way to go.  But it 
does work.  The problem was not the UTF-8 but getting a physical Font 
address.  For Hebrew and other Arabic languages I had to reference 
LucidaSans which is with the jre and for the Eastern language I used Arial 
Unicode MS.  One can use the Netscape font too, which is Bitsteam 
Cyberbit.  Unfortunately, I had to work this out on my own.  Wish I had 
gotten more interest, but I have to admit I did not approach the list 
intelligently with this request.  I just assumed that people would figure 
out why I was on the list rather than the reverse.  Oh well, live and 
learn.  My mistake.

Thank you for this interest.  If you have any further interest, please feel 
free to contact me personally.  I have it all working acey duecy as of today.

Michael
At 01:42 AM 5/17/2004, Kransen, J. wrote:
Anyone tell me if I'm wrong, but I doubt if UTF-8 covers Chinese. As I see
it, it only contains 8 bits per character, instead of ASCII's 7 bits, and
for that reason I assume it only covers 2* the number of chars. Maybe you
can try UTF-16 instead?
Jeroen
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Verzonden: zondag 16 mei 2004 17:47
> Aan: Struts Users Mailing List
> Onderwerp: UTF8 and Chinese
>
> I am trying to use the image tags from Commons sandbox taglibs.  I am
> trying to use them with Chinese.  The Western European languages work fine
> with them, but the same thing does not work with Chinese.  I am doing the
> following, in essence:
>
> // Welcome in Chinese
> String original = new String("\u6b22\u8fce");
>
> and
> // "Welcome" in Chinese
> String original = new String("\u6b22\u8fce");
> byte[] utf8Bytes = original.getBytes("UTF8");
> original = new String(utf8Bytes,"UTF8");
>
> Neither works.  I just get the proverbial square boxes on the resultant
> images.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks, Michael
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