The Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified) was encoded in UTF-8 and is displayed as UTF-8. It shows up fine for me in Firefox. It shows up fine in IE, if the code specifies the change of language. It shows only blocks in IE if simply inputted without particular language specification. I have not installed language packs etc, but I'm not fussed about that. My testing shows that the Chinese will work fine for those who want to see it
My concern (and that of my client) is for those people who do not have Chinese (of either variety) installed on their machine and don't want to. If an typical user comes upon a section of the page that doesn't display in readable fashion, their assumption is likely to be that the site does not work. It is always my fault, not theirs. I'm attempting to find a way around that
Currently, main content pages in Chinese contain a special blurb in English to explain that this is a Chinese page, how to see it if they want to and provide a link back to the English version in case they don't. I need to be able to either explain to users that the unreadable (for them) content is Chinese, or show it as Chinese consistently
Hopefully, that is a bit clearer, seeing as I've had some coffee now
Cheers, Lachlan
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