- From: Tex Texin <texin@progress.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:41:23 -0400
- To: souravm <souravm@infy.com>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
The Japanese character set has the english letters and also digits encoded twice. Once as ASCII characters. Again as double-byte (and generally double-width) characters. When you use the IME/Hiragana you are getting the double-byte version and your search routines are not treating these as equivalent to the single-byte versions. There are also other characters that represent numeric values in Japanese, and more generally other languages can have other representations for numbers. tex > souravm wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I’m facing a strange problem with IME. > > > > Here goes the scenario. I’ve written the string 8890 in a text file > (.txt) and saved it. Now I’ve opened the file and open the search > dialogue box. At this point I’ve used the IME and changed the language > option to Japanese (Hiragana). Using IME I typed 8890 and try to > search the string. The string was not found. However, if I write the > same string in the text file using the IME, the string can be searched > in the above described way. > > Please let me know what is the reason behind this observation. Does > IME use completely different types of encoding for different languages > even for the numerals ? > > > > Regards, > > Sourav > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:Texin@Progress.com the Progress Company Tel: +1-781-280-4271 http://www.progress.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Find out about Globalization Empowerment for Progress users http://www.progress.com/consulting/globalization_empowerment_solutions.htm For a compelling demonstration for Unicode: http://www.I18nGuy.com/unicode-example.html
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