Unicode support as well as some minor performance improvements have been
added to the ADL workbench. See the ADL workbench help page -
http://svn.openehr.org/ref_impl_eiffel/TRUNK/apps/doc/adl_workbench_help.htm.
There is an english/farsi family history archetype in the test/unicode
directory of the Subversion knowledge repository to test it on. I
believe that the Turkish translation of the Observation/mst_colon
archetype also now displays correctly - it requires unicode as well, due
to the strange history of negotiations in early computing history which
somehow failed to include a few Turkish characters in any of the
so-called ISO latin-* character set extensions to ASCII.
We would be interested in feedback from people using other unicode
languages such as any of the Asian languages, Hindi, etc. Currently,
authoring of archetypes in these languages has to be done using some
editor that supports the language, via direct editing of ADL files. We
will be releasing the unicode version of the Ocean Archetype Editor very
soon, after some further testing, at which point it can be used, with
native language strings added via cut-and-paste from another editor.
The Mac version of the ADL Workbench is also nearing release, which we
hope will please all those Mac laptop owners out there.
For discussion of these developments, please use the openehr-technical
or openehr-clinical mailing lists.
- thomas beale