[FX.php List] Re-How to process Kanji?

[Bob Patin]

Hi,

Thanks for your response; I'll pass this information on to my client  
so that perhaps they can start using UTF-8 in any future forms.

Best regards,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:05 AM, Masayuki Nii wrote:

> I'm Japanese native, not English.
>
> FX.php works with FileMaker XML engine. XML engine after ver.7  
> needs UTF-8 characters
> as you know. If you make a page with UTF-8 character set, you don't  
> have to
> convert the character set. If the page is composed as other  
> character sets such
> a Shift JIS or Japanese EUC, you have to convert those character  
> set from/to
> UTF-8. It's not difficult to show the contents of database on the  
> page. I guess
> that it's tough work if you have to build a input form page by  
> using Shift JIS
> because you generally have to intermediate a conversion process  
> after submitting.
> For FM ver.6 is too much different but I guess it's not a matter.
>
> I think we don't have to have a Shift JIS code anymore. Because  
> almost all browser
> can use UTF-8 on any Japanese computer systems. If your customer  
> has a problem
> for UTF-8 web page, it might be caused by particular kind of  
> settings in httpd.
> conf (of course, if they use Apache), i.e. the setting in web  
> server has something
> wrong. As the another case, I guess that the page might work with  
> other legacy
> systems. As my understanding, Shift JIS is not a requirement for  
> Japanese web
> site now. I strongly recommend to use UTF-8 to avoid a lot of  
> problems if you
> work with FileMaker Server.
>
> Masayuki Nii
>
> At Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:24:20 -0500, Bob Patin wrote:
>> I'm doing a site for a client who's going to be inputting Kanji
>> (Japanese); is there something I need to do either in the PROCESSING
>> form or in the FORM itself that will make this work?
>>
>> I'm getting a 958 error consistently when Kanji is input; when I test
>> by inputting standard English into the same field, it works. Any help
>> would be greatly appreciated...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> 615-333-6858
>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>>
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>>       AIM or iChat: longterm1954
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>>       MSN: tech at longtermsolutions.com
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>>
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