I searched through the forum for an answer, but didn't see anything that related to this. I need the database to hold a variety of fonts, including Big5 in addition to any other language that someone may enter in. I saw this suggestion:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5">

as well as this link: http://gossamer-threads.com/...p;ubb=002413:Forum12

but it doesn't quite answer it. Is this possible or an exercise in futility?

Thanks in advance!
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You can define various font you wish to use for displaying database within your .cfg file.

When you say use Big5 in addition to any other language are you saying you are not just setting up ONE view of your database to be able to display Big5 characters?

I think you may need to setup a different view of your database for each language. There are some related threads and suggestions on how to do this in the FAQ noted below under the section "Viewing". Or you can search on "language".

Unoffical DBMan FAQ

http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/

Right, there would be one template, but different languages would be entered into the db. So, one page may be Big5, one may be Spanish, another French, another Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc..... So, when you say to setup a different view, do you mean a separate html.pl file for each language, or within the html.pl file some if..then statements with something like, "if the language is Chinese, print this header" ? Do I need a separate db for each language, or can one db hold multiple languages (including Big5) at once?

Thanks for responding so fast, sorry for posting in the wrong spot :)
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I can't remember exactly which way ending up working best for the others who have setup different languages. When I setup a database for use with various languages myself for a survey in 6 languages, what I did was to create a different database for each.

But if you search the forum for others threads with the keywords I mentioned earlier I'm sure you will find solutions that others have used.

It would also depend on whether you are using the user friendly mod and having your headers and footers contained within their own file rather than within the html.pl file. I'm not sure with using the Big5 within your heading will affect other language databases.

Here is one thread reference that deal with this topic:

Subject One Databse, Multiple html.pl´s best way?
justin 7-Nov-00
Thread: http://gossamer-threads.com/p/112572

Hope this helps

Unoffical DBMan FAQ

http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/

Thank you! I did some searching around; but that link was by far the most helpful.
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