Chinese language discussion

[buddycheng]

Dear All:

I install a traditional chinese and a simplified Chinese OSC on my site, it work great. However, there is a problem for the categories name, I useed English no matter how many character I use it is okay but if I put more than 4 Chinese charater it automatic trim to 4 Chinese word only, is there anyone has the same problem. Please help me to solve the problem.

 

thanks

Buddy

[SegenZhu]

Which traditional and simplified package are you using now?

 

Regards,

Segen

[boxtel]

Dear All:

I install a traditional chinese and a simplified Chinese OSC on my site, it work great. However, there is a problem for the categories name, I useed English no matter how many character I use it is okay but if I put more than 4 Chinese charater it automatic trim to 4 Chinese word only, is there anyone has the same problem. Please help me to solve the problem.

 

thanks

Buddy

 

you will find that several standard php string functions do not go very well with big5 encoding.

[buddycheng]

Which traditional and simplified package are you using now?

 

Regards,

Segen

I am using Chiwawa's Traditional chinese Package

the link is

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri.../search,chinese

Traditional Chinese language pack(Big5 code) for osCommerce 2.2 CVS Snapshot

Community: http://forum.kmd.com.tw

Author(s): Nickle Cheng ([email protected])

the version I got from the forum

 

 

and siplified V1.0 (cosc-V0.1)

chinese simplified language pack(gb2312 code)

Either one I upload to osc 2.2 with the original English version the English version is running very well in the category name 9 I can put as many caracter I want

[SegenZhu]

I am using Chinese version downloaded from oscommerce-cn.com, it supports Simplified Chinese and English.

[cn000]

You might want to check the database max value for the category name. Chinese takes more space in the database.

 

 

I have another issue with Search function. When I use chinese on my site. My search does not work. The String passed to sql did not get any result back. Any guy in the thread have any idea? Thanks for your help.