International Character Sets and Multi-Language Support
This release now provides support for Multi-Language International character sets. The character set (encoding) can be specified with the parameter, "charset"
In the applet form the following should be added between the <applet> and </applet> tags.
<param name="charset" value="[encoding name]">
In the servlet form the parameter should be added to the IMG tag, eg.
<img src="[ServletEngineURL]/LineGraphServlet?
config=[URLconfigFile]&
data=[URLdataFile]&
charset=[encoding name]"
width="500" height="420">
If this parameter is not present then a default value of "8859_1" will be used, which represents Latin Alphabet No.1 (the default for Western English browsers).
Please Note: This parameter is only valid where the data is provided via a text file or server side process.
There are two methods by which International Characters can be used:-
1) Unicode - If the data files are encoded using Unicode (rather than ASCII) then the charset parameter should be set to a value of "UTF8", eg.
<PARAM name="charset" value="UTF8">
2) Specify a particular Character Set to use - see the table below
The following table shows some of the more common values for the charset parameter:-
charset Parameter | Description |
<param name="charset" value="SJIS"> | Shift-JIS, Japanese |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1250"> | Eastern European |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1251"> | Cyrillic |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1252"> | Latin-1 |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1253"> | Greek |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1254"> | Turkish |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1255"> | Hebrew |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1256"> | Arabic |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1257"> | Baltic |
<param name="charset" value="Cp1258"> | Vietnamese |
<param name="charset" value="Cp874"> | Thai |
<param name="charset" value="GBK"> | Chinese (simplified) |
<param name="charset" value="JIS0208"> | JIS X 0208, Japanese |
<param name="charset" value="EUC_KR"> | KSC 5601, EUC encoding, Korean |
For the complete list of possible values please
click here