Thanks Matt, I'll do that :-)
On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Matt Raible wrote:
You could try a less customized version of Roller on my site.
http://raibledesigns.com/page/test
Username: test
Password: roller
Hope this helps,
Matt
On 4/20/06, Bill Tribley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Sean,
It sounds like the jroller blog viewer is not properly set up to
handle true utf-8 encoding. When you put the character into HTML
then you are causing it to pass through jroller, your browser is
picking up on the utf-8, recognizing Chinese and displaying it, as
long as all the characters make it.
Bill
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:11:26 -0400, Sean Montgomery wrote:
Greetings,
I use Safari under OS X 10.4.6 to access my Roller blog at
www.jroller.com
using, well, whatever version of Roller they're using today ;-)
I'd like to be able to use Unicode characters in the titles of my
blog
entries. If I use OS X's built in Chinese input method editor to
enter a
Chinese character in an entry title via the Edit Entry screen
I'll see the
correct character show up in the entry listing (to the right of
the Edit
Entry screen under Recent Entries) but all I get is a '?' when I
view the
blog.
If I try entering an HTML entity like "胖" into the title
then I see
those seven characters under Recent Entries, but I do see the
correct single
(Chinese) character when I view the blog. The correct character
also shows
up in the RSS feed when viewed via Safari. The trouble comes
when I try to
view the new entry via the front page of the JRoller website - it
displays
"胖" explicitly.
Sure, I could just blame JRoller ;-) Instead I pointed
feedvalidator.org at
my RSS feed and validated it - they flagged the "&#x80d6;"
and gave a
warning that the title should not contain HTML and that I
shouldn't be
surprised if some viewers strip the characters or leave them
there - like I
saw at JRoller.
I've seen Roller blogs that contain entries with titles
containing explicit
Unicode characters - I've check out their RSS source (using Safari's
View:View Source command). Their RSS feed source, like mine,
contains
charset="UTF-8", so that makes sense.
So what am I doing wrong? It looks like there's no way for me to
input
Unicode via the Chinese input method using the existing web-
based Roller
interface that JRoller has configured. Is it a configuration
issue? Or do I
need to use an alternative method of posting entries that uses
the Blogger or
MetaWeblog APIs?
I didn't find anything useful on the Roller user guides and wiki
about
this... Any suggestions on where to turn?
??!
