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evrena
07-15-2005, 12:16 AM
I want to have the text on my website in Japanese for the Japanese readers. A colleague of mine has translated the English text to Japanese in a word file and I simply copied and pasted it into the HTML file. But in IE it did not work. Browser displayed only ? for each Japanese symbol. Do you have any idea about the source of the problem or any suggestion for solution?

Thanks in advance....
bathurst_guy
07-15-2005, 12:23 AM
you have to say what language your using
<html lang="jp">
and a few other changes to what is used in the document, but i havnt done it myself and i dont know them all, but thats a start. someone else may have the complete solution
BonRouge
07-15-2005, 12:37 AM
You'll need to use the right character set. 'shift_jis' is a popular one - I use that on my company's site (CHEERS - in my sig).

I hope this helps.
bathurst_guy
07-15-2005, 12:44 AM
your site has ??? aswell bonrouge, for me
evrena
07-15-2005, 02:37 AM
thanks a lot so far...but still it does not work. I went through the sources of some Japanese websites. These two lines seem adequate:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=shift_ijs">
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" Content="ja">

But still it doesn't work with me.....
BonRouge
07-15-2005, 03:01 AM
your site has ??? aswell bonrouge, for me
That's probably because you don't have Japanese fonts installed - do a quick search and see if you can read any other Japanese sites...
In fact, here are a couple :

NHK (http://www.nhk.or.jp/)
Rakuten (http://page.cafe.ocn.ne.jp/profile/keisyu)

(chosen at random).

evrena,
This may also be a server problem.
The server may need to be configured properly.
Or it could be your browser settings overriding the character set (which sometimes happens).
Do you see my site OK? If you don't then it must a browser issue.
evrena
07-15-2005, 03:06 AM
Thanks a lot BonRouge...I can see your websites. I think the problem is not with the browser. What can be the server problem?
BonRouge
07-15-2005, 03:12 AM
Whose server is it? Is it a big hosting company or is the server on your local machine?
Can I see the page you've tried to publish - as a text file would be fine if you don't have a live link (though a live link would be better).