From: Huo, Henry (Henry.Huo@aig.com)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2006 - 08:26:15 CDT
We are evaluate the legacy systems, and would like to get you gurus' advises
on what's the best approach to support multilingual web products.
Currently, the legacy web applications are running on Websphere5 and Sybase
12.5 which setup with CP850 for varchar and char.
Web front-end will do NCR encoding/decoding (&#nnnnn;) for double-byte
characters, e.g. Japanese, Chinese characters, and no encode/decode for
us-ascii inputs.
We are currently working on a plan to support all kinds of language,
including English, German (umlauts), Korea, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Could
you please advise what's the best approach? If we convert the Sybase
database to use unichar/univarchar, then we need to change all of the legacy
apps to use UTF-8 encode/decode, and the efforts are huge. If we would like
to keep the current CP850 char/varchar in Sybase database site, should we
encode/decode with NCR (&#nnnnn;) for all Web applications handling
different languages cross different countries?? Will the NCR encode/decode
support all languages w/o issues --- we already noticed some issues, like
invalid characters "??" in the database.
Thank you so much for your help and any input is highly appreciated.
With best regards,
- Henry
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