Dear all,
Actually, I am just starting to learn what UTF-8 is. But I did test epidata manager with a myanmar font which is widely used on the web. When I typed in Myanmar in epidata manager, many squares showed up and I understood nothing.
Zaw Myo Tun, MB, BS The Union's office in Myanmar Myanmar
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:27:23 +0200 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: 4C474A1B.9060405@tbrieder.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Dear David:
You must install Chinese language on your Windows machine (easy to pick from the Windows languages list). With that, your PC can display Chinese characters (this has nothing to do with EpiData, but with Windows).
Once that is done, the following is possible with the current EpiData Entry version:
Field labels can be in Chinese Value labels can be in Chinese
Field names cannot be in Chinese (I believe) Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese
The EpiData Association development team is working on a version of EpiData software that is going to use UTF-8, so everything will be possible in any language.
Jens, if I am mistaken, please correct.
Hans
On 20:59, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hi,
I need to help colleagues with a data entry system for a questionnaire in chinese. I have downloaded the chinese version of epidata but it does not display chinese characters (lots of squiggles and things instead). Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to display chinese characters properly? This is with windows vista.
Thanks.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
-- Hans L Rieder, MD, MPH Jetzikofenstr 12 3038 Kirchlindach Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 829 4577 Mob: +41 79 321 9122 Web: http://www.tbrieder.org
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:12:06 +0200 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: RE: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata To: "epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca" epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID: 397652837FFE5C41914C636F749FF4CE02CE8F45E9@Server04-P2K8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Thanks Hans. This is very helpful. I don't use windows and am helping out a colleague remotely, so this has been a bit of an exploration for me. "Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese" effectively means that even though the questions can be in Chinese the answers can only be written in English. I think that most of the questions in this survey use numbers or lists so for most of it I think we will be okay.
Thanks again for the help.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
From: epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Sent: 21 July 2010 21:27 To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata
Dear David:
You must install Chinese language on your Windows machine (easy to pick from the Windows languages list). With that, your PC can display Chinese characters (this has nothing to do with EpiData, but with Windows).
Once that is done, the following is possible with the current EpiData Entry version:
Field labels can be in Chinese Value labels can be in Chinese
Field names cannot be in Chinese (I believe) Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese
The EpiData Association development team is working on a version of EpiData software that is going to use UTF-8, so everything will be possible in any language.
Jens, if I am mistaken, please correct.
Hans
On 20:59, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hi,
I need to help colleagues with a data entry system for a questionnaire in chinese. I have downloaded the chinese version of epidata but it does not display chinese characters (lots of squiggles and things instead). Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to display chinese characters properly? This is with windows vista.
Thanks.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
-- Hans L Rieder, MD, MPH Jetzikofenstr 12 3038 Kirchlindach Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 829 4577 Mob: +41 79 321 9122 Web: http://www.tbrieder.org
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UTF-8 is a way of using characters with computers, where each letter in any language can be expressed without transformation. The test by ZAW is a very appropriate one, since we must find ways of supporting local language. Possibly there is some obstacle that we did not find in the specification of the screen font for EpiData Manager .
I do urge all users to test local language with the test version of EpiData Manager available from http://www.epidata.dk/testing.php
For the manager development it is good if you can upload such examples to the Flyspray database including a screen shot on your pc in a zip file. See on the epidata.dk/testing.php page for a link to the Flyspray bug reporting system.
Regards Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association. :
Dear all,
Actually, I am just starting to learn what UTF-8 is. But I did test epidata manager with a myanmar font which is widely used on the web. When I typed in Myanmar in epidata manager, many squares showed up and I understood nothing.
Zaw Myo Tun, MB, BS The Union's office in Myanmar Myanmar
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:36 PM, epidata-list-request@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:27:23 +0200 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID:4C474A1B.9060405@tbrieder.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Dear David:
You must install Chinese language on your Windows machine (easy to pick from the Windows languages list). With that, your PC can display Chinese characters (this has nothing to do with EpiData, but with Windows).
Once that is done, the following is possible with the current EpiData Entry version:
Field labels can be in Chinese Value labels can be in Chinese
Field names cannot be in Chinese (I believe) Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese
The EpiData Association development team is working on a version of EpiData software that is going to use UTF-8, so everything will be possible in any language.
Jens, if I am mistaken, please correct.
Hans
On 20:59, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hi,
I need to help colleagues with a data entry system for a questionnaire in chinese. I have downloaded the chinese version of epidata but it does not display chinese characters (lots of squiggles and things instead). Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to display chinese characters properly? This is with windows vista.
Thanks.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
-- Hans L Rieder, MD, MPH Jetzikofenstr 12 3038 Kirchlindach Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 829 4577 Mob: +41 79 321 9122 Web: http://www.tbrieder.org
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:12:06 +0200 From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: RE: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata To: "epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca" epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Message-ID:397652837FFE5C41914C636F749FF4CE02CE8F45E9@Server04-P2K8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Thanks Hans. This is very helpful. I don't use windows and am helping out a colleague remotely, so this has been a bit of an exploration for me. "Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese" effectively means that even though the questions can be in Chinese the answers can only be written in English. I think that most of the questions in this survey use numbers or lists so for most of it I think we will be okay.
Thanks again for the help.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
From: epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [epidata-list-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Sent: 21 July 2010 21:27 To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: Re: [EpiData-list] chinese version of epidata
Dear David:
You must install Chinese language on your Windows machine (easy to pick from the Windows languages list). With that, your PC can display Chinese characters (this has nothing to do with EpiData, but with Windows).
Once that is done, the following is possible with the current EpiData Entry version:
Field labels can be in Chinese Value labels can be in Chinese
Field names cannot be in Chinese (I believe) Values in text fields cannot be in Chinese
The EpiData Association development team is working on a version of EpiData software that is going to use UTF-8, so everything will be possible in any language.
Jens, if I am mistaken, please correct.
Hans
On 20:59, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hi,
I need to help colleagues with a data entry system for a questionnaire in chinese. I have downloaded the chinese version of epidata but it does not display chinese characters (lots of squiggles and things instead). Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to display chinese characters properly? This is with windows vista.
Thanks.
David
David Whiting, PhD | Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist tel +32-2-6437945 | mob +32-496-266436 | David.Whiting@idf.org
International Diabetes Federation 166 Chaussée de la Hulpe, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium tel +32-2-5385511 | fax +32-2-5385114 info@idf.org | www.idf.org | VAT BE 0433.674.528
IDF | Promoting diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide
-- Hans L Rieder, MD, MPH Jetzikofenstr 12 3038 Kirchlindach Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 829 4577 Mob: +41 79 321 9122 Web: http://www.tbrieder.org
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