non-latin

Does MySql full text search works reasonably with none latin languages (Henrew, Arabic, Japanaese...)

Does MySql full text search works reasonably with none Latin languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Japanaese...) Addition: Did some tests... It has some problems with Hebrew. Example: The name מוסינזון is pronounced the same as מושינזון but searching one won't find the other, as this is a common spelling error in Hebrew, it seems I will have to...

xslt disable-output-escaping turns non-latin characters into question marks "...???????????..."

Hi, I'm using xslt do display Solr response in html, my xsl file is in UTF-8 and non-latin characters (arabic) are nicely displayed, the problem is that when I use disable-output-escaping="yes" to parse html tag, the non-latin chars become a series of question marks ????????? Any clue ? Thanks in advance ...

Are there programming languages that rely on non-latin alphabets?

Every programming language I have ever seen has been based on the Latin alphabet, this is not surprising considering I live in Canada... But it only really makes sense that there would be programming languages based on other alphabets, or else bright computer scientists across the world would have to learn a new alphabet to go on in the ...

Reg ex validation on UTF8 / multi byte 'language' characters (inc chinese etc) but not special characters such as {/*

Hi, Using PHP / Mysql all encoded up as UTF we have recently had to start capturing non-Latin characters such as Chinese etc. We have php validation that checks on string length and alpha numeric such as if (!ereg("[[:alnum:]]{2,}",$_POST['company_name'])) { //error code here } This is not working on multi byte chars. I understand ...

word boundary on non latin characters in php

This example works fine: echo preg_replace("/\bI\b/u", 'we', "I can"); // we can This one were russian letters are used does not work even though I use "u" modifier: echo preg_replace("/\bЯ\b/u", 'мы', 'Я могу'); // still "Я могу" So the question is what should I do to fix this? Thanks. ...

Problem with Flash and non-latin text input

As most of you may know there is a problem when not using wmode='window' in google chrome. The problem that I have is that I'm integrating a system with facebook and if you do that you need to use transparent. This is because if you don't do that it's impossible to see the facebook messages like the share or some notifications. I leave...

How is Kana sensitivy applied to non-Japanese letters?

Why is Kana Sensitivity applied to Latin and Cyrillic collations? i.e. "_KS" in, for ex., Latin1_General_100_CS_AI_KS I tried to search for Kana and get exactly what I expected: When Japanese kana characters Hiragana and Katakana are treated differently, it is called Kana sensitive. How is it applied to Latin letters? What am I l...