Oğuz Demirkapı Sr. Application Developer, NicheClick Media March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Sr. Application Developer at NicheClick Media  Coding since ‘85, CGI Programming since ’94  ColdFusion Developer since ’97  Founder and Manager (prev) of CFUG for Turkey  Interested in ColdFusion, Flex, Ajax, Frameworks, i18N, L10N, g13N  Have big interest in epistemology March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Preview ◦ Theory ◦ Contents  i18N Tips ◦ ColdFusion Tips (Server & Code) ◦ Database Tips  Questions & Answers March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Do we need mutilingualism? ◦ Yes!  Time Zones  Calendars  Cultural Differences March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 What is i18N (Internationalization)? ◦ Application functions in at least two locales  What is L10N (Localization)? ◦ Process of applying a locale or language "skin" to an i18N application  What is G11N (Globalization)? ◦ i18N & L10N March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 What is Unicode?  Why do we need to use Unicode?  ColdFusion Versions ◦ ColdFusion MX ◦ Converting ColdFusion 5 or older projects into MX is a headache with Unicode March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 ColdFusion MX  Converting ColdFusion 5 or older projects into MX is a headache with Unicode  ColdFusion MX  ColdFusion 8 March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Setting up your environment for multilingual applications: Code organization, database server settings, ColdFusion server settings, development tools etc.  DEMO March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Code & Code Isolation ◦ Java Resource Bundle ◦ IBM ICU4J Library ◦ GNU GetText()  Database or File/XML Usage ◦ Not the best but still popular March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Sample Applications ◦ Basic Techniques ◦ File Handling ◦ Mail Usage ◦ Fusebox ◦ Model-Glue ◦ FarCry ◦ GNU GetText()  DEMO March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Use ColdFusion MX ◦ If possible ColdFusion MX 7.x and up  Use Updated JVM  Setting Correct Locale  Use DSN Settings ◦ MS SQL Server ◦ MS Access with Unicode Support March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Use Unicode Capable Editor  Dreamweaver Good ◦ Support BOM  Eclipse/CFEclipse Not Bad ◦ No BOM creation ◦ OK for current files with BOM  Homesite/CFStudio Never! ◦ March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Use Unicode ◦ If possible with BOM support  ColdFusion MX Detect BOM ◦ If you have BOM support on your file ColdFusion understand your locale and there is no need to use extra tags such as cfprocessingdirective March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 ColdFusion MX Templates ◦ If there is no BOM must be included in every CFM template. ◦ Using in Application.cfm etc. does not help March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Beware of ColdFusion Functions & Tags ◦ CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE, CFCONTENT, CFFILE, CFHEADER, CFHTTP, CFHTTPPARAM, CFMAIL, CFMAILPART tags and the SETENCODING, GETENCODING, TOBASE64, TOSTRING, URLDECODE, and URLENCODEDFORMAT functions etc.  Use encoding in Tags #mymailasplaintext# #mymailashtml# March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Use a robust database ◦ MS SQL Server ◦ MySQL Server ◦ PostgreSQL Server ◦ Oracle  Beware of Unicode Support ◦ MySQL 4.1 and up March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Use Right Locale ◦ UTF8 in MySQL ◦ Especially important in MySQL  Beware of Field Types ◦ SQL Server nvarchar, ntext etc. March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

 Adobe Developer Center  Globalizing ColdFusionMX ◦ Paul Hastings ◦ March 12th- 13th 2008europe.cfunited.com

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