- From: James Turley <jturley@xai.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:29:27 -0700
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
Hello... I will jump in here, re language Auto Detect for Win9x/NT/2K platforms. I always wondered how IE5 "Autodetected" languages through the [Right Mouse Click]-->Encoding-->AutoSelect process. And..I was hoping never to have to write one to support the 127 locales supported by Windows 2000. Well...seems like you don't have to write any code, due do some undocumented but useful features of Jet. 4.0. While I was giving a seminar in Redmond, a reliable but unamed PM from MS Office 2K let me in on the secret. Microsoft Jet OLEDB 4.0 Text and installable indexed-sequential access method (IISAM) uses MLANG.dll which provides Language autodetect functionality for all MS products through "Extended Properties" setting. You get this for free with all MS OS's and maybe MacOS. So...if you are using ADO (DAO works too, I am told)... in VB for example, just set up an ADO connection, set Provider as "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" and set Properties("Extended Properties") = "TEXT;CharacterSet=Detect;" & "Locale=ALL;" This will return an enumeration recordset of "guesses" about the locales represented by your text, sorted in best guess order. Pretty good..and you don't even have to write any code. I think it may work on mac too. email me offlist for some coding fragments. Jim Turley, XAI mailto:jturley@xai.com -- XA International 14510 Big Basin Way, #240 Contract Programming Agency Saratoga, CA 95070 International Software Engineering mailto:info@xai.com http://www.xai.com +1 408 741 5577 Voice +1 408 741 0512 FAX -----Original Message----- From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Santosh Rau (by way of "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>) Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:58 PM To: www-international@w3.org Subject: Re: Japanese encoding? Hello, Can someone point me to RFCs/documentation on how these browsers 'auto-detect' the encoding used on japanese pages ? This is for the case where the 'charset' is not specified. I have two URLs for which the browsers work correctly: www.yahoo.co.jp www.kantei.go.jp Thanks Santosh Rau Netmind
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