Editing XML with special characters like ç á ñ
Hello. I have to code a multilanguage website. As it will be very
static, I set things up so everything is loaded from an XML file.
However, as soon as I tried to start typing in the text in spanish,
french and polish, I realized that no XML editor I knew would let me
type and output unicode references. I mean, I need something where I
can press the ´e sequence in the keyboard and get é (without the
space) instead of the normal output é. If I am to type in a virtual
keyboard or insert the characters from a character map this will turn
into an endless task. How do russian, polish or chinese people write
their (raw) XML?
Thanks!!!
8  5787  sa******@partir viajes.com.ar wrote: How do russian, polish or chinese people write
their (raw) XML?
Sometimes by specifying an encoding that matches the keyboard they're
using (the XML declaration says which encoding a given file is written
in). Sometimes by converting it from their native encoding to UTF8
before publishing.
--
() ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
/\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry
Joe Kesselman wrote: sa******@partir viajes.com.ar wrote: How do russian, polish or chinese people write
their (raw) XML?
Sometimes by specifying an encoding that matches the keyboard they're
using (the XML declaration says which encoding a given file is written
in). Sometimes by converting it from their native encoding to UTF8
before publishing.
Yes, that's the way we type our Umlauts and
other strange characters in German. At the shell
level, I can find out which encoding is used by
my operating system:
locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE .UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_ DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE. UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_ DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de _DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de _DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE .UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE. UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_ DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="d e_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT= "de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATI ON="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
The "locale" command is a standard POSIX command.
Read the newgroup gnu.utils.bug. You will find that
problems with locale cause many "bug reports" there
which are not bugs, but locale-specific details.
And now some weird characters to disturb your emailer:
äÄöÖüÜ and the best is ß sa******@partir viajes.com.ar wrote: Editing XML with special characters like ç á ñ
Hello. I have to code a multilanguage website.
First, get rid of the concept that ç, á, or ñ are in any way "special".
They are normal standard characters in many languages. If you hope to
code a multilingual site you must treat all characters as standard.
As it will be very
static, I set things up so everything is loaded from an XML file.
However, as soon as I tried to start typing in the text in spanish,
french and polish, I realized that no XML editor I knew would let me
type and output unicode references.
What XML editor were you using? All the ones I know have no problem
at all in handling ISO-8859-1 or -2.
I mean, I need something where I
can press the ´e sequence in the keyboard and get é (without the
space) instead of the normal output é.
AFAIK they all do this. If they don't, they are basically useless as
XML editors.
///Peter
--
XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/
Thanks for the answers.
Well, none of the editors I've tried so far converts to unicode right
away. For instance, the XMLSpy 2006 trial inserts accented characters
in the xml instead of the numeric unicode entity. The same goes for
Notepad++ and several others.
Regarding Joe Kesselman and Jürgen Kahrs' messages, I don't think I've
quite understood what they ment. I don't see how the keyboard layout
has anything to do with how xml editing software render the "é"s.
sa******@partir viajes.com.ar wrote: Regarding Joe Kesselman and Jürgen Kahrs' messages, I don't think I've
quite understood what they ment. I don't see how the keyboard layout
has anything to do with how xml editing software render the "é"s.
The keyboard layout is a hint. If someone has a
German keyboard, it is very likely that he uses
a suitable locale at the operating system level.
If none of the editors you tried works correctly,
then you should consider that some settings in
your environment (probably locale settings) are
not correct. Rest assured that even my vi editor
knows German Umlauts and Japanese characters too.
Jürgen Kahrs wrote: The keyboard layout is a hint. If someone has a
German keyboard, it is very likely that he uses
a suitable locale at the operating system level.
.... And therefore is working directly in an encoding which supports
those characters.
You need the system, or the editor, or both switched into the
appropriate encoding (which may require loading additional
operating-system files not present in the usual American version, eg
fonts which include the necessary characters). Or you need the system
set up to work in and display full Unicode (which will still need
suitable fonts). Or you need to get used to working in terms of the escapes.
--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden
Please see how people do it for Web pages in HTML -
see "Multilingu al HTML" section here: http://RusWin.net
--
Paul
Peter Flynn wrote:
What XML editor were you using? All the ones I know have no problem
at all in handling ISO-8859-1 or -2.
He mentioned Russian and Russian (Cyrillic) is not covered by these
two.
It is a separate code page - iso-8859-5 on UNix (or KOI8-R) and
windows-1251 under Windows.
--
Regards,
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