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Help localizing application in Mac

Hi, I have an application which is supposed to work on both windows and Mac and is localized in Portuguese, Spanish and German. I have an ini file from where the localized strings are read from. But the ini file doesn't work with same encoding for the files on both platforms. For Windows I have to have the file in ANSI format or else t...

What is AM/PM called?

Hi All, Thanks for reading. I know what AM/PM stand for (ante-meridiem and post-meridiem), but what are they called? For example, if I am building a date/time from some fields, such as date, hour, minute, am/pm, and want the user to be able to select the time from some select menus like 1-12, 00-60, and am/pm, I would name the selects...

Zend database query result converts column values to null

Hi again. I am using the next instructions to get some registers from my Database. Create the needed models (from the params module): $obj_paramtype_model = new Params_Model_DbTable_Paramtype(); $obj_param_model = new Params_Model_DbTable_Param(); Getting the available locales from the database // This returns a Zend_Db_Ta...

URL encoding for latin characters in Java

I'm trying to read in an image URL. As mentioned in the java documentation, I tried converting the URL to URI by String imageURL = "http://www.shefinds.com/files/Christian-Louboutin-Décolleté-100-pumps.jpg"; URL url = new URL(imageURL); url = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getFile(), null).toURL(); URLConnection conn = ...

Problem with XML encoding of database contents with Latin characters

I have an ASP Access database that contains strings in various European languages. The database was populated prior by agents in the respective countries. It contains entries with accented etc characters as you would expect. If I open the database with MS Access these characters show up fine. For example the the German equivalent of...

latin characters showing in some parts of the page and not others

the page in question is Apple Amor You can see that in the footer the spanish vowels seem to be showing properly , but in the slide down bar(header) they get messed up. Any ideas why ? ...