Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Dealing with non-Roman character sets

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Posted by Andrew Grumet on 01/03/02 05:45 PM
utf-8 allows you to display symbols from multiple languages on a single page, provided that your users have the necessary fonts to view them installed. The later ArsDigita AOLserver distros have nice support for multiple character sets, including utf-8. There is reasonable documentation here: http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/multilingual/.

Working with utf-8 requires careful attention to webserver, database, environment variable and (when debugging) terminal settings. I have had success on client sites with Oracle; haven't tried with PG.