[erlang-questions] Web servers and unicode support?

[Fred Janon]

Hi,

I want to design a web application with support for European, Asian
languages as well as English, meaning Unicode. I am very interested in doing
that in Erlang with Mnesia or MySQL or Postgres (when I figure out if I can
use Mnesia), but what would I need to use (web server, extensions) to
support these languages/Unicode? I saw a few posting about not so great
String support in Erlang, therefore even less for Unicode. What's the
status?

Thanks

Fred

[Rumata]

If you don't need any string manipulation (I didn't need for my site)
you can treat all strings as binaries.

Besides, there are asn1rt:utf8_list_to_binary/1 and
asn1rt:utf8_list_to_binary/1 functions.

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[Kevin A. Smith]

There's also the unicode module in later releases (R13B-0 and later, I
think).

--Kevin

[Rapsey]

I'm writing a website in yaws/erlydtl/erlmongo right now and it works with
UTF-8 just fine.

Sergej

[Bryan Fink]

Hi, Fred. Like a few others here, I also have a website running on
Erlang (mochiweb/webmachine/mnesia) right now, and it also handles
UTF-8 just fine. For what it's worth, UTF-16 would have worked just
as well, but UTF-8 was more convenient, given the set of services the
website communicates with (solr, facebook, browsers, ...).

For actually working with unicode text (not just storing & fetching),
I've found the Starling project's links to the ICU library to be quite
helpful:

http://12monkeys.co.uk/starling/

The unpublicized xmerl_ucs module included with Erlang releases also
has some useful tools for converting among character encodings, if
you're unable to use R13B's unicode module.

-Bryan

[Fred Janon]

Thanks everyone for your answers and pointers, really appreciated. I'll
start working on it as soon as my present project permits, then.

Fred