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Longnt06k
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 Posted - 17 June 2002 : 09:36:00
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How to used Unicode in Snitz forum ???
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Posted - 18 June 2002 : 23:19:22
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Depending on what you'd like to do...your questions can be answered differently, I think. But if it can be of a general help regarding unicode based Snitz, please go to:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29681
Also, there are existing topics in DEV: Internationalization (V4.x) regarding Forum deployment on unicode. Plz do some search...
There are also some existing V4.x forums deployed in unicode (UTF8). If you like to take a look at one, you can visit a demo/semi production forum with English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese deployed with unicode (UTF-8). References/Resources available there for issues related to HTML, ISO, Unicode, etc.
If you can be more specific, perhaps, I will try to direct you a proper approach.
You can take a look at: i2AsiaFORUM
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Posted - 20 June 2002 : 00:18:10
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Hi again,
I am confirming that you can use unicode with Snitz Forum with either V3.3.0x/05 or V4.x (try the latest for either versions).
I have now 2 different forums running on V4.x and V3.3.05, both in utf-8/unicode format:
(1) V4.x unicode based forum: one with V4b03.004 with 4 language packs enabled (lang1033: English_US, default, Lang1041:Japanese, Lang1028: Traditional Chinese, and Lang2052:Simplified Chinese)
(2) V3.3.05 unicode based forum: English (1033) is a base single language (which means Forum prompt, UI, FAQ, pop_up Help, etc. etc. will remain in English, but Forum categories, topics, etc. can be of any languages, pretty much.
In general, an approach using unicode is mentioned at
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29681
But for V3.305, you need to change one thing in
admin_forums.asp around Ln44, immediately below <!-- Include..... --> statements:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
to set a default/base encoding format of HTML to unicode (UTF-8).
Forum installed will be in English_US, however, you can accommodate various language topics simultaneously rendered correctly (show up properly in any language) However, as a default, Forum is set in Left to Right direction, languages such as Arabic and Hebrew many not properly appear directionally - although they show up properly in their respective characters (tested).
So, again, it appears up to your "design" choice for a forum, if you are to apply unicode setting for Snitz Forums.
Again, you should note that it's depending on a browser encoding format to render properly in a web page, so if Forum is set to utf-8, a browser encoding should be set to "Unicode (UTF-8)". (IE and NEtscape may render slightly different for different charsets and fonts). For any locale language, you have to set a proper browser encoding format to view it properly and a browser needs to have respective fonds loaded. But, with unicode (utf-8), you don't have to switch encoding formats, as it covers pretty much any langauges... thus viewable in all different languages in V3.3.05 Forum, if based on UTF-8 encoding format.
Hope this helps.
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