On 2008-11-23 13:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe I have the appropriate meta tag ... <meta http-
> equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">

My first thought was that your meta tag might be over-ridden by your
web server's charset (like the AddDefaultCharset directive of
Apache)... but if normal HTML pages are ok that's not it.

> Ive tried all the different collation types in my database and still
> no luck.

The database collation and charset (in MySQL,
--character-set-server=???) can be different.  But rather than relying
on the server setting, you can specify the charset on a table by table
(or even column) basis and specify sjis there in the "belt and
suspenders" mentality.

> Ive never done any foreign language sites before this is really new to
> me can anyone please help?

I'd be inclined to use UTF-8 rather than Shift_JIS for a new site
unless you are targeting old browsers or already have lots of
Shift_JIS encoded content.


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