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[Mark Armendariz]

Fantastic answers, both of you!!

It turns out it's to be displayed in big5.

I'm going to get to reading.. Thank you both for helping me get a head
start!!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: LIAO YANG [mailto:heli_travel at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:08 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Multiple Language Application...


There are mainly two sets of Chinese characters. One is GB2312 system,
another is Big5 system. GB2312 is mainly used by MainLand China, Big5 is
mainly used by Chinese overseas, Taiwan, Hongkong. so you need to make
decision where is your marketplace and which one is suitable, or you
want to handle them all. But I guess you need both, since more more
Mainland Chinese people are come to aboard, it will be very soon to
become the majority of Chinese overseas. IE can handle both Chinese
character sets, for Netscape you may need a third party encoding
software to handle the display, but those are free. Here is one you may
use: http://www.njstar.com . Msql database has no problem to handle
chinese Character. 
There are two ways to handle those two Chinese Character sets. 1)Dynamic
interface handling, you may need a convert program to convert those Char
sets each other, there are some programs are free to download, but I
don't know where. Usually it is perl or c++ program. 2)Static web
contents. This is the easy one, you can prepare two sets of your web
contents, and disply them seperately. So totally will be three sets of
them, 2 Chinese and 1 English. There is the way OSCommerce handles
multiple languages.

Hope it may help little bit!

LY


--- Mark Armendariz <nyphp at enobrev.com> wrote:
> Good morning and Happy Tuesday New Yorkers...
>  
> I'm working on an application that requires the interface (as well as
> the content) to be in English and Chinese.  Unfortunately, I
> have ZERO
> experience in such things.  I have some ideas as how to
> accomplish this.
> OSCommerce does it by including a php language file in their
> configure
> files, which i think seems to be a good way. I also figured
> maybe
> something with XML or from the database (using php / mysql /
> apache)
>  
> Can anyone here reccommend an efficient way or something to look at /
> for to help me move in the right direction?
>  
> Thanks!!!
>  
> Mark Armendariz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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