08-21-2013 07:00 AM
Hello,
I have a potential customer who would like to know if unicode is supported?
They are an English based company and have documents they would like to store in the system that have come from China for example and they would like to do a copy and paste of of the Chinese company name and index a keyword called company name using this character set.
I have done a quick test on the V13 9seconds food demo and i can import a document and index keyword a field using the following characters (Japanese in this case)
I can retrieve the document using the keyword value of
However the autoname strings displays all ????????.
Is there a way I can get OnBase using the unity client to display the characters as expected?
Many thanks
Paul
08-21-2013 08:56 AM
Paul,
At the moment, you are unable to store keyword values in English, Chinese, and Japanese. However, with the proper collation, you are able to store either Chinese and English keyword values (using a Chinese collation), or Japanese and English values (using a Japanese collation).
Also, your system locale needs to be set to Japanese. This setting can be found under Regions and Languages in Control Panel. The system locale is the setting for non-Unicode programs found under the Administrative tab.
Hope this helps.
Thank you,
Alexandra
08-21-2013 09:08 AM
Hi Paul,
Long time, no hear. I hope everything is going well with you.
Alexandra pretty much wrapped everything up already for you and the initial issue is really how we store OnBase values in the database. OnBase very much still depends on database collation AND the code page used on your workstation. OnBase databases do not support Unicode, yet. However, stay tuned for future updates as we are working very hard to get this going.
Have a great day,
Rico
08-21-2013 09:12 AM
Hi Enrico,Alexandra,
Yes Enrico I am very well thanks hope you are too.
Thanks for your replies and quick feedback much appreciated.
Paul
08-28-2013 02:15 AM
Hi Enrico,Alexandra,
I have some further information. The customer would want to store keywords in Hebrew,Chinese,Japanese e.t.c so the Japanese or Chinese collation would not work for us.
Have Hyland come across this before? and do you any workarounds? I know that V14 will address these issues, but the customer is hoping for something a lot sooner than next year.
Any ideas suggestions are very much appreciated .
08-29-2013 08:30 AM
Hi Paul,
I think it really depends on your solution. For the languages you have mentioned you will need separate databases for each until we are able to provide Unicode support. You can use for example, Document Transfer to transfer documents between systems but keep in mind that you wouldn't be able to carry over alphanumeric keywords due to the fact that the character sets wouldn't be recognized from one collation to another.
I'd be happy to discuss this further with you if you'd like.
Thank you,
Alexandra Coman
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