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<p>Solomon,</p>
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<p>for mixing UNICODE in ABCD (v2.0x) you need the following elements to have been set properly :
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<p>- the actab and uctab tables in either the proper database-folder within the data-folder) or in the general bases-folder (for all databases) named 'isisactab_utf8.tab' and 'isisuctab_utf8.tab'; samples are already available with the installation, containing
in addition to the mandatory ANSI e.g. Arabic. and Amharic I added meanwhile also Devanagari, Sinhala, Tamil and Malayam, but probably you only need ANSI and Arabic.<br>
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<p>- a parameter 'UNICODE=' (0 or 1) in dr_path.def for each of the databases, this will avoid the error you got which indicates that ABCD thinks it is a unicode database while is isn't. The actab and uctab tables structure in Unicode is totatlly different
from the classic tables.</p>
<p>ABCD will change the encoding charset according to the parameter UNICODE (in abcd.def as the default and dr_path.def for each database if different from the default). For iAH also a parameter UNICODE needs to be set in dbname.def with values 0 (no Unicode)
or 1/2/3...n where each value points to another ahindx1/2/3...n.htm file in iah/scripts/en. For each alphabet this file ahindx1/2/3...n can contain the pointers as buttons on the screen, as already exemplified in the installation files where ahindx1.htm contains
Amharic buttons (for Ethiopia).</p>
<p>Of course Unicode databases need to have been created and maintained using the correct setting, which means instead of cgi-bin/ansi/wxis (or mx) the Unicode-version cgi-bin/utf8/wxis (or mx) will be used.<br>
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<p>The option in the Central login-screen to switch to Unicode only refers to the encoding charset of the interface. Finally there are two new utilities (in the extra-menu) allowing to change the charsets of text files (such as the PFTs, FDT, FST, .def,.par
etc.) in the database-folder for the active database, either changing from ANSI to UTF8 or vice versa.</p>
<p>Remember however also that browsers have options to set/switch character encoding for page display, so sometimes it will be still necessary to use those settings. For Firefox e.g. there are many such add-ons.<br>
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<p>That basically sums up the challenge.</p>
<p>It would have been much more simple if we would totally migrate to UTF8 (meaning all databases become Unicode), as can be expected in a modern world, but - sorry friends - Latin America, where Unicode is not needed, prefers to stick to ANSI.<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Egbert de Smet<br>
Universiteit Antwerpen</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> isis-users <isis-users-bounces+egbert.desmet=ua.ac.be@iccisis.org> on behalf of Solomon Mutai <skmutai@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 20, 2018 8:28 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Isis-users] HOW TO SETUP UNICODE</font>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">colleagues,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">I am finding a new challenge with data entry where i have some titles both in English and Arabic. My server configuration is set to ANSI (which is standard anyway for most installation)
and I dont know hoe to combine this with UNICODE. When I switch encoding to UNICODE I get
<font size="+1" color="red">WXIS|execution error|actab|loadactb_utf8/max 4 columns|</font>. How do I reconfigure this so that my system can use both? My case may be illustrated if you try to catalogue ISBN
<font size="2" face="verdana">9004125892</font><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Thanks<br>
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