Latin 1 support

Ignition
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I know you guys are working hard to bring i18n to ignition but I need to deliver something now.

I’ve created a SQLTags driver for all the points. Currently you can’t use é and â and other non ascii characters in the tag name. But you can use them in the tooltips.
:bulb: I can create the screens and display the tool tip instead of the tag name.
:question: does tag import/export handle utf8 csv files? (export works)
:question: alarms? Can the alarm table be made to show the tooltip instead of the tag name?
:question: history? Can the history graph show the tool tip instead of the tag name. (I’m pretty sure I can make this work)
:question: what other things will jump out and bite me with this plan?

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Tomorrow I’ll look into what we can do to support these characters in the tag name.

With internal sqltags it shouldn’t be a problem- through the database, however, it may be necessary to ensure that the collation is set up in the database to prevent “è=e”. Maybe it doesn’t matter, though, because I’m not sure we ever select based on the tag name…

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I’ve modified tags to allow a wider range of characters in the names, and everything appears to work fine. Didn’t make it into the latest dev release, but should be in the next one.

Regards,

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Thanks,

I’ll give it a go when it comes out.