Support for non-western character sets

I've been reading docs for WL portal and for WL server, but basically I need to know...what needs to be set/installed for a Weblogic Portal 10.3 running on Weblogic Server 10.3 to have non-western characters display in the content of any portlet we may have? For instance, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese...thanks!
Sorry, I want to add: this is assuming the encoding of the content is correct (like an html document), the database that content may be retrieved from is set up correctly, etc.
Just basically what to configure in WL Portal, WL Server, oh and Workshop too (if anything).
Edited by: user10697594 on Jan 5, 2010 2:56 PM

Hi
You dont need anything special, however the JVM you use must support the encoding you want (unless you are going with a unicode flavor like UTF-8 which all JVM's support). The rest of the i18n stuff like ResourceBundles for messages, date currency formats are handled in your code anyway.
regards
deepak

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Q2: Are we heading in the right direction or is there a better way to handle this ?
Q3: Would 10.5 solve all our problems, are the print drivers any better ?
Q4: Is this the correct way to specify custom page sizes, is this all we need to do ?
Q5: Is so how do we get the driver to respect the size, do we need another filter or something ?
Q6: Is it possible to add (by hand) custom page sizes to the ESP drivers or Foomatic PPD files so they they appear as a "standard" offering in the Page Setup / Paper Size interface ?
Sorry for the long / complicated post and thanks in advance for any advice / assistance.

Matt Broughton wrote:
Testing on 10.5.7, Tried both Oki 9-Pin Series 1.3 / Microline personality (no joy) and Epson 9-Pin Series 1.3 (this is a much better driver than 1.1) / Epson FX personality but not much joy with custom page sizes,
The Oki 9-pin Series 1.3 and the Epson 9-Pin Series 1.3 should produce the same results. The only difference in the PPDs is the printer model name.
After some testing, I find that the output is not the same despite the two PPDs being virtually identical. I did spot in the CUPS source code for the rastertoepson filter that there is some model name matching for Epson printers. Thus I can see where the output using the Oki 9-pin PPD could be different than when using the Epson 9-pin PPD.
but again once I imbedded the page size into the ppd some (but frustrating) luck. I can get it to respect the paper orientation and it prints well but I could not get the form length to work properly. At best over a print run of 7 labels it would creep up the label by about 0.1 inches / 2 mm.
Just for the fun of it, I made some additions to the Epson 9-pin 1.3 PPD. All I can say is that I could print a job to file. I have no way to know what it would look like on paper.
I did find that using a custom paper size did add some unwanted margins to the output bounding box. Putting the custom page size into the PPD seemed to get around that issue.
I added the following lines to the Epson 9-pin PPD 1.3--
<pre style="overflow: auto;font-size:small; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #222; background: #ddd; padding: .3em .8em .3em .8em; font-size: 9px;">*PageSize Label1/Label1: "<</PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion Label1/Label1: "<<PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*ImageableArea Label1/Label1: "0 0 288.00 107.80"
*PaperDimension Label1/Label1: "288.00 107.80"</pre>
This adds a paper size with the 4 inch (288pt) width and 1.5 inch (107.8pt) height. That represents the 1.4 inch label and the 0.1 inch gap between labels. I set 0pt margins except for the bottom where is set the 0.1 inch (7pt) gap as the bottom margin.
The full diff in context is--
<pre style="overflow: auto;font-size:small; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #222; background: #ddd; padding: .3em .8em .3em .8em; font-size: 9px;">loki:~ matt$ diff -u /usr/share/cups/model/epson9.ppd ~/Desktop/epson9.ppd
--- /usr/share/cups/model/epson9.ppd 2009-02-20 20:16:53.000000000 -0600
+++ /Users/matt/Desktop/epson9.ppd 2009-06-06 20:37:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
*PageSize Legal/US Legal: "<</PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize A4/A4: "<</PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
+*PageSize Label1/Label1: "<</PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *PageSize
*OpenUI *PageRegion/Media Size: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageRegion
@@ -50,17 +51,20 @@
*PageRegion Legal/US Legal: "<</PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion A4/A4: "<</PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
+*PageRegion Label1/Label1: "<<PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *PageRegion
*DefaultImageableArea: Letter
*ImageableArea Letter/US Letter: "18.00 18.00 594.00 774.00"
*ImageableArea Legal/US Legal: "18.00 18.00 594.00 990.00"
*ImageableArea A4/A4: "18.00 18.00 577.00 824.00"
*ImageableArea FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "18.00 18.00 1053.00 774.00"
+*ImageableArea Label1/Label1: "0 0 288.00 107.80"
*DefaultPaperDimension: Letter
*PaperDimension Letter/US Letter: "612.00 792.00"
*PaperDimension Legal/US Legal: "612.00 1008.00"
*PaperDimension A4/A4: "595.00 842.00"
*PaperDimension FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "1071.00 792.00"
+*PaperDimension Label1/Label1: "288.00 107.80"
*MaxMediaWidth: "1080.00"
*MaxMediaHeight: "86400.00"
*HWMargins: 18.00 18.00 18.00 18.00</pre>
I don't know if that will help you or not. Let us know what sort of progress you make.
Matt

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