Multilanguage and .eot fonts - unicode encoding into database

From: Manoël Bailly (mbailly@uchrony.be)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 04:54:46 EST


Hello Michka,

I'm still impressionate by the multilanguage page you done (http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html) and thanks again to
help me to use unicode with database.

I studied the above page to understand how displaying both japanese kanji, traditional chinese and pinyin correctly at the same
time. I got it now, but I still have some questions or misunderstanding.

Thanks a lot to help.

PS: With all fonts I have, I can see all the texts in the page except this one :
???? ?????? ?????? ??? ???
but sorry, I can't tell which font is used and if theses fonts are free of rights.

1) What kind of file are the .eot files used in the style definition of the page ?

2) It's seems that the informations insertted into the database are inserted with the same encoding that the page containing the
form. As I working with "utf-8" encoding, it's seems all my datas are in "utf-8" encoding in the database, So when I wish to paste
datas directly into a field (with SQL server Enterprise Manager) I need to copy/paste in "utf-8" format. With this format, I cannot
see the text correctly with the Enterprise Manager.
But I can also paste data in "Unicode" format in the Enterprise Manager which it's correctly displayed in the Enterprise Manager but
not on the web page (because it's not utf-8 encoding).
I thing it's not correct to stock datas in "utf-8". Moreover, a japanese kana/kanji in utf-8 still need 3 characters lenght of a
"nvarchar" type string.
Have an idea ?

Big thanks!

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