[erlang-questions] Web servers and unicode support?

[Fred Janon]

Thanks everyone for your answers and pointers, really appreciated. I'll
start working on it as soon as my present project permits, then.

Fred

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 21:00, Bryan Fink <bryan.fink@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Fred Janon <fjanon@REDACTED> wrote:
> > I want to design a web application with support for European,  Asian
> > languages as well as English, meaning Unicode. I am very interested in
> doing
> > that in Erlang with Mnesia or MySQL or Postgres (when I figure out if I
> can
> > use Mnesia), but what would I need to use (web server, extensions) to
> > support these languages/Unicode? I saw a few posting about not so great
> > String support in Erlang, therefore even less for Unicode. What's the
> > status?
>
> Hi, Fred.  Like a few others here, I also have a website running on
> Erlang (mochiweb/webmachine/mnesia) right now, and it also handles
> UTF-8 just fine.  For what it's worth, UTF-16 would have worked just
> as well, but UTF-8 was more convenient, given the set of services the
> website communicates with (solr, facebook, browsers, ...).
>
> For actually working with unicode text (not just storing & fetching),
> I've found the Starling project's links to the ICU library to be quite
> helpful:
>
> http://12monkeys.co.uk/starling/
>
> The unpublicized xmerl_ucs module included with Erlang releases also
> has some useful tools for converting among character encodings, if
> you're unable to use R13B's unicode module.
>
> -Bryan
>
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