Stream: implementers
Topic: Charset specification and Internationalization
Sarvesh Padwal (Jul 01 2019 at 07:01):
Hi All, I have a doubt on FHIR charset support.
As per https://www.hl7.org/fhir/v3/Charset/cs.html FHIR supports UTF 8 only.
As per http://hl7.org/fhir/languages.html, we can provide content in specific language for example: Chinese which is UTF 16
So how can we conclude about FHIR charset support here?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 01 2019 at 14:17):
You can do Chinese using UTF-8
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 01 2019 at 14:17):
(Or any other language)
Sarvesh Padwal (Jul 02 2019 at 05:44):
@Lloyd McKenzie
Example: http://hl7.org/fhir/patient-example-chinese.json.html
For above example, As per FHIR specification, we have to make it Content-Type: application/fhir+json;charset=UTF-8
I think If we do Chinese using UTF-8, then some information may be lost.
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Jul 02 2019 at 06:59):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Jul 02 2019 at 06:59):
Looks like nothing will be lost.
Sarvesh Padwal (Jul 02 2019 at 08:20):
Ok. This makes sense. Actually I never worked with UTF-16 earlier. Just got this doubt. It seems like UTF-8 is universal and it supports all UTF family.
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