RE: BText and Unicode-encoded characters

Thanks, Christian. Here's an example:

In Java class:
BText btext = new BText();
btext.setAllowMarkupInText(true);
btext.setText("\u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03b8\u03c1\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b7");

a) Character output:
??????????

b) Should be:
Συνάθροιση

Timo


At 09:48 11.2.2003 -0500, Christian Cryder wrote:
>Hi Timo!
>
> > Barracuda components seem to work fine with Unicode-encoded
> > characters most of the time. However, the BText component
> > doesn't work. It renders question marks (?) in place of Greek
> > characters.
>
>I'm sure that we will be able to fix this...what I need to know from you is
>
>a) what is actually being rendered (ie. character output)
>b) what _should_ it be
>
>If you can provide a simple example here, showing us the target piece of
>markup, the BTExt element in question (ie. what data you are putting into
>it), and then show us what is coming out along with what it _should_ be
>instead, that we will be able to fix this.
>
>Christian
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Timo H Jarvinen
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:39 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Barracuda] BText and Unicode-encoded characters
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using Barracuda 1.1 final release in a multilingual web
> > application.
> > We are not using Localize2, because it seemed too difficult a year ago.
> > Rather, we are using Java's resource bundles in language versioning of
> > texts. Some texts are also hard-coded in Java classes, some are stored in
> > the database. We have converted Greek texts into Unicode-encoded
> > characters
> > (\udddd) using the native2ascii utility.
> >
> > Barracuda components seem to work fine with Unicode-encoded
> > characters most
> > of the time. However, the BText component doesn't work. It
> > renders question
> > marks (?) in place of Greek characters.
> >
> > Is there something we could do better, or is there something
> > wrong with the
> > BText component?
> >
> > Another issue is that the Greek texts are not displayed in the
> > Netscape 4.6
> > and 4.7 browsers. Internet Explorer displays them correctly.
> > Probably this
> > is not a Barracuda-related issue.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Timo Järvinen
> > VTT Information Technology
> > Finland
> >
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