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! > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
