[turba] Non english name in Turba 2.1.1

[kenneth yip]

Thanks.

As our original environment is big5, we'll stick to big5 rather than
going to utf8, though this is forfeit multi-lingual support in Turba.
We have hundreds of thousand entries in Turba.

rgds,
kenneth

"Fred Ho" <fkho at fredho.net> wrote in message 
news:20060712214455.9of0z3dxq4g8okg0 at mail.fredho.net...
> You may try exporting the data out into CSV format text and read them back
> using notepad and use save as and select UTF-8 encoding.
> Import the data back into turba.
>
> Make sure that your turba backend supports UTF-8 data storage and default 
> to
> the same charset.
>
> Regards,
> Fred
>
>
>
> Quoting kenneth yip <kkyyip at hkusua.hku.hk>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Found the solution from the archive.
>>
>> The only problem left is how to convert the old big5 (or other
>> encoding) stuff to UTF-8.
>>
>> rgds,
>> kenneth
>>
>> "kenneth yip" <kkyyip at hkusua.hku.hk> wrote in message
>> news:e91nh2$2n8$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> After upgrading to Turba H3-2.1.1, I found that all
>>> non english name (supposed to be in big5 encoding)
>>> which can be displayed in Turba 1.2 became garble.
>>> Even adding a non english name directly from IMP 4.1.2
>>> (by clicking the address book icon) resulted in all question
>>> marks ("?") in the Name field in Turba.
>>>
>>> Does anyone get the same problem? It sounds like that either
>>> mysql or Turba is not handling UTF8 or big5 encoding well.
>>>
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> kenneth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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