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Oğuz DemirkapıSr. Application Developer, NicheClick Media
March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com
Sr. Application Developer at NicheClick Media Coding since ‘85, CGI Programming since ’94 ColdFusion Developer since ’97 Founder and Manager (prev) of CFUG for Turkey Interested in ColdFusion, Flex, Ajax, Frameworks, i18N,
L10N, g13N Have big interest in epistemology
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Preview◦ Theory◦ Contents
i18N Tips◦ ColdFusion Tips (Server & Code)◦ Database Tips
Questions & Answers
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Do we need mutilingualism?◦ Yes!
Time Zones Calendars Cultural Differences
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What is i18N (Internationalization)?◦ Application functions in at least two locales
What is L10N (Localization)?◦ Process of applying a locale or language "skin" to an i18N
application What is G11N (Globalization)?◦ i18N & L10N
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What is Unicode? Why do we need to use Unicode? ColdFusion Versions◦ ColdFusion MX◦ Converting ColdFusion 5 or older projects into MX is a
headache with Unicode
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ColdFusion MX Converting ColdFusion 5 or older projects into MX is a
headache with Unicode ColdFusion MX ColdFusion 8
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Setting up your environment for multilingual applications: Code organization, database server settings, ColdFusion server settings, development tools etc.
DEMO
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Code & Code Isolation◦ Java Resource Bundle◦ IBM ICU4J Library◦GNU GetText()
Database or File/XML Usage◦ Not the best but still popular
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Sample Applications◦ Basic Techniques◦ File Handling◦ Mail Usage◦ Fusebox ◦ Model-Glue ◦ FarCry◦ GNU GetText()
DEMO
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Use ColdFusion MX◦ If possible ColdFusion MX 7.x and up
Use Updated JVM Setting Correct Locale Use DSN Settings◦MS SQL Server
◦MS Access with Unicode Support
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Use Unicode Capable Editor Dreamweaver Good◦ Support BOM
Eclipse/CFEclipse Not Bad◦ No BOM creation◦OK for current files with BOM
Homesite/CFStudio Never!◦ http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_19059
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Use Unicode◦ If possible with BOM support
ColdFusion MX Detect BOM◦ If you have BOM support on your file ColdFusion understand
your locale and there is no need to use extra tags such as cfprocessingdirective
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ColdFusion MX Templates◦ If there is no BOM <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=“utf-8">must be included in every CFM template.◦ Using in Application.cfm etc. does not help
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Beware of ColdFusion Functions & Tags◦ CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE, CFCONTENT, CFFILE, CFHEADER, CFHTTP, CFHTTPPARAM,
CFMAIL, CFMAILPART tags and the SETENCODING, GETENCODING, TOBASE64, TOSTRING, URLDECODE, and URLENCODEDFORMAT functions etc.
Use encoding in Tags <cfmail to="#user#" from="#me#" subject="Unicode Test" charset="utf-8"> <cfmailpart charset="utf-8" type="plain“>#mymailasplaintext#
</cfmailpart> <cfmailpart charset="utf-8" type="html“>#mymailashtml#
</cfmailpart> </cfmail>
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Use a robust database◦MS SQL Server◦MySQL Server◦ PostgreSQL Server◦Oracle
Beware of Unicode Support◦MySQL 4.1 and up
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Use Right Locale◦ UTF8 in MySQL◦ Especially important in MySQL
Beware of Field Types◦ SQL Server nvarchar, ntext etc.
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Adobe Developer Center http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/localization_globalization.html
Globalizing ColdFusionMX ◦ Paul Hastings◦ http://www.sustainablegis.com/blog/cfg11n/
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