> A second problem, frequent with Unicode, happens when the native > language at OS level, doesn't match the language of the page. A little > tidbit is referenced here: > <http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/misc/#encoding> > One thing to do is making sure that the **server** is sending the > correct headers for the character encoding (.htaccess or httpd.conf on > Apache), and not relying at all on the meta tag. This has fixed > multiple problems with characters on my side. Philippe, Thanks! I will look into it.
> And third, to avoid problems with 'broken characters' - make sure not > to use Windows Office characters (the nightmare of my job). Mac Office > will read them, IE Mac and any other browser, will have problems > (typical for Japanese: bullets and round numbered characters). > Also, make sure that a correct font is set in the stylesheet. The only Microsoft product I have is Entourage. I do not use it for unicode Chinese texts. I think my font is set correctly in my stylesheet. First I didn't use the font-family and CSS validator gave me errors message. > Finally, when coding sites for local audiences, using Shift_jis, > EUC-KR, ... is really appropriate. I code all my commercial sites in > shift_jis. This provides less hassle, esp when dealing with forms and > cgi scripts. Shift_JIS and the EUC are for Japanese and Korean with Hanji right? I do not think they cover all Chinese characters. And the are Hanji that are not Chinese characters. tee ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
