[Cartoweb-users] Display data in Chinese

[Jady]

Thanks very much, I can now handle chinese characters in search and tooltips
plugins.

However, for the outline plugin, how can I make it to display the labels in
chinese?

Thanks.

Regards,
Jady




Oliver Christen wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Cartoweb can, by default, handle string encoded in UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.
> If the string are encoded using another encoding, for example BIG-5 ( used 
> for chinese characters ), you will need to use php's Multibyte String 
> Functions (http://ch2.php.net/mbstring) to convert the string in utf8 (or 
> ISO-8859-1). See the mb_convert_encoding functions for more details 
> (http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php)
> 
> So, the first step would be to know which encoding is used for the chinese 
> characters.
> Once you know that, you can easily add some tableRules 
> (http://www.cartoweb.org/doc_head/docbook/xhtml/dev.newplugin.html#dev.newplugin.special.tables 
> and also see the tutorial, point 9 
> http://www.cartoweb.org/cwiki/Foss4g06Workshops) to convert the encoding 
> using the above-mentioned mb_convert_encoding function.
> This will do for query result table.
> For tooltips, you need to extend the toolTips plugin (as explained in the 
> documentations) and apply the same encoding converstion on the result.
> 
> This is optional:
> If you want to do it cleanly, you can create a new encoding/decoding class 
> based on the existing encoding/decoding system. Simply look in 
> /common/Encoding.php and you will see the existing "class EncoderUTF 
> implements EncoderInterface" and "class EncoderISO implements 
> EncoderInterface". If needed, simply make your own "class EncoderXYZ 
> implements EncoderInterface" with the appropriate encode/decode function. 
> Create a new plugin and put your code inside (I think that should be
> enough 
> to be able to call the class). Define a new encoder id in your client.ini 
> (for example EncoderClass.xyz = EncoderXYZ). Then you can simply use 
> Encoder::decode($text, 'xyz') when you want to handle the chinese strings.
> 
> I dont know any details about php's Multibyte String Functions so you will 
> have to ask php's support if you need more help with that part.
> 
> regards
> Oliver
> 
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am using Cartoweb3.4 and in my shapefiles, some of the attribute data 
>> are
>> in Chinese.  I would like to know how can I display these Chinese 
>> characters
>> in Cartoweb? Like in the query result table and tooltips, etc.  Right now
>> strange symbols are displayed instead.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance for any help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jady
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