[Plone-i18n] Re: unicode oddities

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Anoush Najarian wrote:

> Dear Everyone,
> 
> I have encountered these oddities while working on the Armenian translation
> for Plone (1.0.5).  I would especially appreciate help with #2.
> 
> 1. search for items written in unicode does not seem to work (finds
> nothing).
> 
> 2. font in pull-down menus does not show as Unicode (see squares).  From
> plone.css, it appears that it is the dtml.InputFont, as opposed to
> dtml.MainFont that is used for the rest of the portal.  Changing all fonts
> to MainFont doesn't seem to help...
> 
> (Problem #2 only comes up on IExplorer 6.0.  Opera and Mozilla don't have a
> problem here!  I'm very glad about that -- but most everyone in Armenia uses
> IE...  Help!  I really hope you're not going to tell me I have to edit the
> registry or something...)
> 
> 3. if the text is in unicode, single quotes don't do their job as would be
> expected in StructuredText: things like 'Edit' come out with contrasting
> background, but if the word between quotes is in funky Unicode chars, you
> just see quote+word+quote.

I can only (not) help you with #3:

Structured text is buggy in this area !

IIRC, there is somewhere a howto that explains how to make Zope and 
structured text work with at least accented characters.

Do not want to dispair you.
> 
> Thank you,
> Anoush
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