At 7:20am this morning, we successfully transitioned Plexus Online™ (POL) to a full UTF-8 Unicode front-end. All known data that was previously entered in a foreign language was completely converted by 10:45am.
There are two major implications to this.
First, from now on, selecting a language from the pull down menu will only affect two things: what language the menu is displayed in, and what language the glossary entries are displayed in.
Second, all data, no matter what language it was entered in, the data will render the same regardless of the language selection. This means if you are in an English session and view data that was entered in Japanese, the Japanese will display correctly.
This is a terrific bonus to our customers that have previously been mixing languages - now it will render properly at all times, not just when they remember to pick the right language.
"I would also like to thank, in particular, Matt Young and Joe Blackmer for a job well done. While the entire team helped identify and fix the issues that were uncovered as we went along, these two were key in designing and programming the fundamental changes to the POL backbone that enabled this full conversion to happen. I couldn't be happier with the job they have done. Kudos!" - Glen Tillman
In case you are wondering, approximately 160,000 menu nodes, 150,000 glossary entries, and 125,000 user entered records were converted (give or take).
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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