tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54777892024-03-20T11:28:17.574+07:00Globalizing CFMX: A blog about all things concerning coldfusion and globalization (G11N for the 11 letters between the "G" and "N" in globalization).Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-82116234734551424122010-06-24T00:44:00.005+07:002010-06-24T10:41:24.871+07:00

let's see if i remember how this blogging thing works ;-) even in this age of twitter, SMS is still a popular form of mobile communication and one which ColdFusion handles quite nicely via it's SMS gateway. While it's shockingly easy to send and receive SMS via ColdFusion, one thing that i did struggle with recently was how to send a multipart or concatenated SMS using ColdFusion. hopefully

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-4316797762797951662009-01-16T07:56:00.000+07:002009-01-16T07:57:26.961+07:00

the icu4j project has just released version 4.01. its a regular maintenance release with the following changes (common across all flavors): Unicode 5.1 locale data: Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.6 charset converter file size improvement date interval formatting (note only gregorian calendar is supported n this release) improved plural support specific

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one of the challenges of trying to use timezones (tz) in an application is that there are so darned many of them--most of which aren't relevant to a given user. for example, have a look at the timezone CFC testbed. the list of tz just goes on and on (and on). you can narrow down the list somewhat if you know the user's location (maybe via geoLocation or, oh yeah, simply asking them), but big

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bruno's released a new version of iText, 2.1.4. You can grab the binaries from: core iText: iText-2.1.4.jar RTF bits: iText-rtf-2.1.4.jar RUPS: iText-rups-2.1.4.jar the source (in several different formats) from here. and of course you really want to read the release notes for this version. keep in mind if you want to use iText and keep cf's CFDocument bits you either want to repackage

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the unicode consortium just released a recommended reading list. there's even a couple in french & german. i see one i don't have yet....off to amazon. you can never have enough books on unicode (or coldfusion for that matter) ;-)

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i really feel for our turkish cf brethren, they always seem to be getting the short end of the stick. a couple of weeks ago there was an issue in the support forums with someone using turkish locale (tr_TR) that was having problems getting case right using coldfusion's uCase() & lCase() functions. there's a couple of special characters, "i" & "ı" (that's small letter i & small letter dotless i)

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if you have servers/workstations in Thailand you probably should know that as of aug-23rd every business computer in the kingdom has to set it's time to the new TST (Thai Standard Time) or get fined a wheelbarrow full of money (from 100,000 to 500,000 baht, that's about $2500 to $15,000 US, yikes). i can understand the idea of using a timeserver to keep stuff in synch (really, who doesn't?) but

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my hair and fingernails starting following out. their's a gray pall over the whole landscape. the summer sun feels weak, like mid-winter. birds are dropping out of the sky. even the bugs stopped buzzing. brett favre's a new york jet? oh my.

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-91155387348109331062008-07-16T18:52:00.001+07:002008-07-16T18:54:28.535+07:00

got to hand it to the whedons. they had a problem with international viewers not being able to connect to the video. they publicly acknowledged the problem on the blog's blog and then i'll-be-darned they went and fixed the problem. geez, they've left nothing to complain about ;-) so be there or be square. many thanks to stephen for pointing out the international issue was resolved.

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got up at the crack of dawn today to get on my bike and get my intervals out of the way early (nothing like starting the day with some physical agony, the rest of the day can only get better ;-) so i could watch the first episode of Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. to my surprise (especially since the blog was discussing the episode's timezones for europe and down under) this turned up instead:

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-60803209527730276382008-07-11T16:12:00.002+07:002008-07-11T16:14:40.208+07:00

if you're a fan of Joss Whedon's work (like say buffey or firefly) you may want to know about Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. which of course has a blog. note the release dates: 1st episode july 15th 2nd episode july 17th 3rd episode july 19th the free airings will get pulled midnight july 20th. they've got a comic over on mySpace. everything is, of course, done up in flash. so

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the latest version of the super cool icu4j i18n library has been released. the big changes (to me) are: that it has upgraded it's resource data to Unicode 5.1 and CLDR 1.6 added date interval formatting (ie Jan 10, 2008 to Jan 20, 2008 becomes Jan 10-20, 2008, 10:10am to 11:10am becomes 10:10-11:10am, etc.). downside is that currently it's only gregorian calendar) added DurationFormat so you

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there were a few threads in the support forums over the last few days about figuring out how to send vendor specific optional parameters via coldfusion's oh-so-sweet SMS gateway. i'd never had to do this before (mainly because we'd managed to avoid SMS vendors who required them) and after pouring thru the docs it looked like the coldfusion team might have missed this. no biggie, i've used the

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june 17th has been touted as "firefox download day". while i'm a long term firefox user, this june 17th business just annoys me no end. june 17th where? what time? what timezone? i've looked fairly hard for any details but all i see is this standalone, kind of useless date of june 17th. how on earth do you think you can coordinate a global project by not giving folks useful info? geez. i've

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-50302816712724829332008-05-14T19:05:00.000+07:002008-05-14T19:06:19.243+07:00

if you've ever had to deal with email addresses you know it's sometimes a black black art to verify RFC-2822 compliance. ColdFusion's isValid() function is certainly handy for this but it's not 100% (actually i don't think anything is 100% RFC-2822 compliant, just have a read thru RFC-2822 to see what i mean). well today on the javamail list someone announced The only

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-26389222236040049222008-05-06T06:55:00.000+07:002008-05-06T06:56:01.359+07:00

mark davis, via the unicode mailing list, mentioned an offical google blog posting that shows that unicode "was the most frequent encoding found on web pages" since dec-2007 (unicode, utf-8, is the blue line on the graph below). wow. i guess people really do get it :-) reference: Moving to Unicode 5.1

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-57933383991799124822008-04-10T11:54:00.002+07:002008-04-10T11:57:50.571+07:00

we very often have to deal with scientific data that's been gathered by various sensors or lab equipment, some of it needing math done with a fairly high precision that ColdFusion sometimes couldn't handle. flopping down to java BigDecimal was the usual way of dealing with this. but yesterday in the ColdFusion support forums, Hemant Khandelwal causally mentioned that cf8 had added a new method,

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not that anyone should need more reason to exercise but a recent blog post from the wonderfully named Terra Sigillata blog from science blogs points to another very good reason--especially at this time of year--exercise can help with alcohol related brain damage. and as we all know, coldfusion/flex developers need all the un-damaged brain cells we can find. you younger folks out there probably

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-81053475642290560332007-12-13T10:05:00.000+07:002007-12-13T10:06:10.802+07:00

not much new stuff here: updated to use CLDR version 1.5.1 updates to timezone formatting and parsing (haven't checked if the bananas tz update is included) some bug fixes detailed here in the readme file download the lib here: icu4j 3.8.1

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-28662906458295575012007-12-04T09:33:00.000+07:002007-12-04T09:35:01.748+07:00

in case you missed the news, the politician in venezuela or should i say the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has decided to implement a half hour timezone (tz) change. The tz will change from -4 hours UTC to -4.5 hours UTC. the sweet part is that the change will supposedly occur next week, 9-dec-2007. i say supposedly because it was also supposed to happen back in september or maybe august.

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-26348049433317835782007-10-01T18:38:00.000+07:002007-10-01T18:49:29.659+07:00

for me this has been a very interesting sporting weekend. first off i finally broke down and bought a road bike, a Giant OCR-3 (cheap starter bike, besides the price biggest plus is that the dealer is 5 minutes from my home/office)--since i've been riding a mountain bike for years i didn't want to blow a wad of baht on a road bike that i might end up hating. i've been riding in the "bush" less

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the final version of icu4j version 3.8 has just been released. to recap what's in this release: uses the latest cldr 1.5.0.1 locale data the long discussed rule based timezone changes which gives us the ability to read and write timezone data in RFC2445 VTIMEZONE format as well as also providing access to Olson timezone transitions! this is something many people have been needing for quite some

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by now i suppose everyone knows about the new SQL goodness in coldfusion 8's cfquery. by using cfquery's optional result argument you can access identity (auto-increment) values if your database returns them (and of course you actually use them). one other useful bit of info returned in the result structure is recordcount which according to the docs returns the Number of records (rows) returned

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-76938966609833286612007-08-09T07:22:00.000+07:002007-08-09T07:24:16.914+07:00

a draft of icu4j version 3.8 has just been released. what's so hot about this release? well a lot actually: it uses the latest and greatest cldr 1.5 locale data the long discussed rule based timezone changes which gives us the ability to read and write timezone data in RFC2445 VTIMEZONE format as well as also providing access to Olson timezone transitions! this is stuff many people have been

Paul Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07919140074049990616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477789.post-74159485294708003142007-08-08T17:39:00.001+07:002007-08-08T17:39:48.797+07:00

i submitted a bug to sun about australian and new zealand time formats being wrong compared to the CLDR on 18-may (CLDR & some common experience says it should be "h:mm:ss a", ie 12 hour AM/PM format, while core java thinks it should be "H:mm:ss", ie 24hr format). according to this (might require login) it was fixed on 21-may--funny thing is that i was only informed via the bug parade just "now"

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