foreign-language

Programming tips with Japanese Language/Characters

I have an idea for a few web apps to write to help me, and maybe others, learn Japanese better since I am studying the language. My problem is the site will be in mostly english, so it needs to mix fluently Japanese Characters, usually hirigana and katakana, but later kanji. I am getting closer to accomplishing this; I have figured out ...

Language of variable names? (native foreign language speakers)

We are a spanish speaking development team, we code in django and we all are pretty fluent in english, as all documentation, sample code, APIs, etc come in english. On our last project we chose to name all the variables, class names, modules, files and such in english, even though the whole application was in spanish, we kept a strings ...

loading data from a flat file to table using informatica, having both english and foreign language characters like chinese

I am loading data from a flat file to table using informatica, the file has both english and foreign language characters like chinese, and others. The foreign language characters are not getting displayed properly after loading. How can this problem be solved ? I could solve it by using code page UTF - 16 Encoding of Unicode Platform End...

Foreign Characters in android & Java

I was trying to download and parse a webpage with foreign (Chinese) characters. I'm not sure whether I should use "utf-8" or sth else. But none of these seems to work for me. I used the sample wikitionary code for getUrlContent. public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(...

Regex to strip symbols but not foreign characters in Ruby

Does anyone have a good regex for stripping all symbols (';.,_\$@!% the carriage return etc) from a string, without damaging any foreign characters (é 多 فا etc)? Non-regex would be even better, I suppose, but I don't see any Ruby or Rails methods that do this. ...

Testing on foreign Windows, is this possible?

I have a need to test an app (.Net) on a Taiwanese version of Windows. Problems: I can't read or speak Taiwanese I don't know if it would be the same if I installed a version of Windows from MSDN on my computer and said I'm from Taiwan Does anyone have any experience with this? How would I go about setting up an appropriate environ...

I have a problem saving foriegn text to a SQL Server database table with a nvarchar field.

I have a requirement to have a multiline textbox that accepts any text from any language and stores this into the database for later use. I am using Linq with ASP .NET 3.5 with a SQL Server 2005 database. Any/all information you can provide me with is much appreciated :D ...

sphinx and languages other than English

I found in http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/sphinx/locale support for several languages that can be used in Sphinx but I did not find the instructions on how to install it: which files should be downloaded and installed in which directories? Any hint would be appreciated. ...

How do I call C from Go using the "foreign function interface"

Hi, How do I use Go's "foreign function interface" to call out to a C function? This interface is mentioned on the FAQ, but I cannot see it mentioned elsewhere in the docs. ...

MySql not storing foreign characters correctly

On SQLITE this way fine. I switch to mysql and instead of クイン i get ???. The column is TEXT or sometimes VARCHAR(255) (i believe its VARCHAR(255) in this case). How do i have mysql save the characters properly? ...

Foreign Characters not displayed correctly in form components

I retrieve data from a MySQL database which is often in foreign languages and encoded with UTF-8. This displays fine normally but when set as the value for a textarea or text box it doesn't display correctly. Infact it looks like this: ыкаепнрошгув When normally ...

Working with Foreign languages

My DB needs to hold strings containing foreign language characters such that; User enters string into form, form submitted and string added to DB, string will be displayed on page for viewing. I would like to use UTF8 as this will be able to handle all of the required languages. Currently I believe my DB is set to 'latin1' but webpages ...

Allowing foreign characters in .htaccess mod_rewrite

Is there a way to allow foreign characters in .htaccess mod_rewrite character sets? i.e., a way to add foreign characters like ç and others to ([A-z]+) ? ...

i modifier doesn't work with foreign languages?

My string is in foreign language, i use the following expression $str = 'մի քանի Բառ ձեր մասին'; $word = 'բառ'; $cont = preg_match_all("/.{0,80}[^\s]*?".preg_quote($word)."[^\s]*?.{0,80}/si",$str,$matched); print_r($matched);//returns Array ( [0] => Array ( ) ) .. . but if i set $word = "Բառ";//returns Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] =...

I have text files in multiple languages. How to selectively delete one language in NLTK?

Maybe this is just impossible and I should give up all hope. Or maybe there's a really clever way to do it that I haven't thought of. Here's two examples of what I've got: يَبِسَ - يَيْبَسُ (yabisa, yaybasu)[y-b-s][ي-ب-س] (To become dry, stiff, rigid) 20:77 yabasan = dry. يَسَّرَ - يُيَسِّرُ (yassara, yuyassiru)[y-s-r][ي-س-ر...