[Mulgara-general] unicode testing

Paul Gearon gearon at ieee.org
Sat Sep 19 00:47:07 UTC 2009


Cool. It'll be nice to have something like this to work with.

BTW, were you able to try those updates from last week? Did they work for you?

Paul

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev at mobileink.com> wrote:
> FYI I put together a little utility for testing Mulgara's support of unicode
> URIs and data.  It's still a little rough around the edges but it seems to
> basically work; I'll be polishing it up in coming weeks but if you're
> interesting in testing utf8 it should be useful now.
>
> It's in the utf8 subdirectory of mulligan.  In short, running "make" will
> download some files from the unicode.org database, compile unicode.c and
> then run it.  It reads the UCD and generates an N3 file for each unicode
> block.  A shell script, "load", runs tql commands (using curl) to
> drop/create/load the blocks, each to its own graph.  (It's been a long time
> since I wrote any code, so don't laugh if you inspect it!)  It's all pretty
> simple and self-explanatory so there's no much documentation.
>
> The generated N3 includes, for each char (that is legal in an IRI), an IRI
> including the char; for all chars there is a string property including the
> char.  I wrote this because I found that I'm still not seeing correct utf8
> data in sparql results.  On the TODO list is a task to write a bunch of
> sparql queries and a "query" shell script, in order to test the SPARQL
> endpoint's utf compliance.
>
> I think this might be useful in putting together a test suite.  The other
> stuff in Mulligan is intended to form the basis of a simple tool for getting
> started with RDF and Mulgara.  The Ajax webpage is not quite ready, though.
>
> -gregg
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