Hi Jamie,

I'm not using any CSS classes, both the textarea and the label are
using default fonts.

On Apr 9, 1:54 pm, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would assume what is happening is this:
>
> The textbox, when used on a web-browser with a chinese locale, uses
> the default system font (which would support Chinese characters).
>
> The label has probably been set (maybe via CSS?) to use a standard
> western font such as Tahoma, Verdana, Arial etc, which afaik do not
> support Chinese characters.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Stickytroll <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I hope someone can help me - this is driving me crazy and I've been
> > searching for answers all day...
>
> > I have a web page written in C# ASP.NET, with a multiline text box and
> > a label. The user types text into the text box, and there are 2
> > buttons so they can either save the text to a SQL database on the web
> > server, or preview the text in a label.
>
> > The text box allows e.g. Chinese characters no problem, and they are
> > saved and loaded from the SQL database fine, so there's nothing wrong
> > with how they are being stored, saved, retrieved, etc.
>
> > However when the preview button is clicked, the label only shows a
> > string of square symbols. Obviously it's having trouble displaying the
> > characters. I'm not setting any special fonts for each of the
> > controls, so they should both be using default fonts.
>
> > I'm copying the text from the textbox to the label like this:
>
> > ConstitutionLabel.Text = ConstitutionTextBox.Text;
>
> > so it should be straightforward. Can anyone suggest anything?
>
> > Any ideas appreciated!
>
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