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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Hi Marilynn,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Whilst we have been able to store full Latin-1 characters for a long time (since Oracle introduced Unicode support), I prefer to avoid them for two reasons:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font face="tahoma">1)</font> The characters are extremely difficult to type from the keyboards I use - there may be keyboard shortcuts, but I don't know them so I usually end up opening Word, inserting symbol and
then copying and pasting the character to wherever I need it.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">2) There are issues that we've hit several times with character encoding mismatches causing web applications to render the Latin-1 characters incorrectly - they usually end up as square boxes. I don't know the technical
details - all I know is that I have had to submit multiple bug reports and have experienced fixes for Java applications causing Perl applications to break and vice versa.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">One way around the problem might be to introduce multilingual storage of ship names (obviously tagged with the appropriate languages) combined with the sort of Technology Google uses to allow Latin-1 and various equivalents to be discovered interoperably.
That way we could cover all bases. We could even use that to go beyond Latin-1 into full multilingual support. What do people think about that?</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Cheers, Roy.</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> platforms-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk [platforms-bounces@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Marilynn Sørensen [marilynn@ices.dk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 23 March 2012 18:45<br>
<b>To:</b> platforms@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Platforms] Principle decision needed<br>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Dear Platform Group,</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">You have seen the request for standardization of “ö” to “oe” so all vessels with “Hoegh” become “Hoeegh”.
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">There is an alternative which the platform group needs to discuss.
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">a) </font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb">
<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Is it time to implement extended characters and allow “ö”, “ø”, “ä” etc? Both ICES and NOAA can handle this change.
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">b) </font></span><span lang="en-gb">
<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">If yes, how should this be implemented?</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Symbol">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb">
<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Update all old ship names</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Symbol">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font>
<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Make a “point in time” change</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Please send your views to me as soon as possible and by 23 April at the latest. We need answers from all members of the platform group. If other groups should be contacted for their views,
please let us know.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Kind regards,</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri">Marilynn</font></span></p>
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