How can Chinese Character be supported ?

seaspirit · August 12, 2003, 02:45:44 AM

why Chinese Character cannt be display correctly?

Spaceman-Spiff · August 12, 2003, 03:46:29 AM

use a different charset, the recommended one is UTF-8, but you can also use others for chinese: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html

in the forum template (assuming you're using yse), edit this line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

seaspirit · August 12, 2003, 04:46:26 AM

I have tried ,but that's of no use

when I post in Chinese,it become:

中文测试

When I changed the iso-8859-1 in my forums.no [nofollow] change happened.

Spaceman-Spiff · August 12, 2003, 05:06:01 AM

any url to your forum so we can see if there's something wrong?

here's a test for chinese/japanese characters: http://omanga.monkey-pirate.com/index.php?board=26;action=display;threadid=1419
using UTF-8

seaspirit · August 12, 2003, 09:59:48 PM

this is my forums:
http://seaspirit.to-j.com/forums/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=5 [nofollow]

By the way,does the yabbse support unicode characters.maybe that make this err happened.

Spaceman-Spiff · August 12, 2003, 11:32:18 PM

hmm... it's weird, i have no problems at all in my forum

maybe its the XHTML, try changing the first line of your template with:

Code Select

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

seaspirit · August 13, 2003, 12:36:21 AM

It doesnt work still.

Before the Ibp had the same question,but they said that when their new edition suppored unicode characters,the problem was soved.

By the way,is the fourms software for http://omanga.monkey-pirate.com/index.php [nofollow] supplied to download?

[Unknown] · August 13, 2003, 01:16:39 AM

That's YaBB SE... www.yabbse.org.

-[Unknown]

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 01:52:12 AM

im actually using YaBBSE 1.5.4 there, only changed the name and link to SMF to help getting googled

i cant figured out yet whats different between my forum and yours...
have you installed any mods by any chance?
i'll try to play around with the template and see what could cause that...

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 02:01:26 AM

for some reason, when i go to your forum, the browser encoding is always set to western (ISO-8859-1)
if i go to my forum, it's unicode (UTF-8)
i dont know yet what happens, i manage to post chinese characters though if i sent my browser to UTF-8 when posting

morph · August 13, 2003, 02:06:17 AM

you mean UTF-8 not UTF-8)

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 02:38:25 AM

modified post

seaspirit · August 13, 2003, 10:23:23 AM

Quote from: Spaceman-Spiff on August 13, 2003, 01:52:12 AM
im actually using YaBBSE 1.5.4 there, only changed the name and link to SMF to help getting googled

i cant figured out yet whats different between my forum and yours...
have you installed any mods by any chance?
i'll try to play around with the template and see what could cause that...

I havent installed any mods!

I think that some one mod that you installed make your forum supports Chinese,but you didnt konw that.
I also think that it's nothing to do with using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8,IPB had once also the same problem,but now they using ISO-8859-1,but the Chinese character can be supported.
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=72395&hl= [nofollow]

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 02:06:39 PM

i dont think it has anything to do with the mods that i installed
here's another test in my test forum: http://www.monkey-pirate.com/php/test/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=11
it works fine too

the problem is, somehow, when i go to your site, the browser encoding is always set to english (ISO)
but if i go to my site, it becomes UTF-8 automatically
i was able to post in your forum in chinese, but i have to change the encoding in my browser first to UTF-8 or Big5
you can view the chinese characters if you change your encoding to those above
http://seaspirit.to-j.com/forums/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=5

i cant figure it out yet why your site does this...

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 02:19:30 PM

i just installed a clean YaBB SE 1.5.4 forum: http://www.monkey-pirate.com/php/clean/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2
the only thing i changed is the charset in the template, and i enabled guest posting

you can try posting yourself in chinese there

seaspirit · August 13, 2003, 03:07:29 PM

http://www.monkey-pirate.com/php/clean/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2 [nofollow]
this fourm has the same question with mine.
but this http://omanga.monkey-pirate.com/index.php [nofollow] has soved the question.
I think so

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 03:46:19 PM

sorry, i dont really understand your last post...

seaspirit · August 13, 2003, 04:11:29 PM

I wanna say that your clean yabbse forum and your test forum have the same questions with my forums,that is when you dont change your brower,the Chinese cannot display correctly.
but your first forum can display chinese correctly without changing your brower.
I think that the mod that your installed for your first forum make Chinese character display correctly.
do you understand me now?

Spaceman-Spiff · August 13, 2003, 04:19:41 PM

i can go to my clean-installed forum: http://www.monkey-pirate.com/php/clean/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2 and ~~read~~ see the chinese characters without changing the browser character coding, only in your website i have to.
Can you try to post some chinese characters in my forum above without changing anything in the browser?

seaspirit · August 13, 2003, 04:24:45 PM

yes ,I can.

Spaceman-Spiff · August 14, 2003, 01:18:07 AM

is to-j.com a redirection service, or actually the webhost?

seaspirit · August 15, 2003, 12:46:32 AM

it's a free webhost.

and where are you from?
Can you speak Chinese?

Spaceman-Spiff · August 15, 2003, 01:04:42 AM

i dont speak chinese and i dont have a lot of experience in using different charsets. i also don't know why your site acts like that to the browser. i'm only guessing that it's your host. i am suspicous because its a free hosting without advertisements, popups, etc. there's gotta be a string attached...

it's a free php, mysql host with "unlimited" bandwidth: www.myjspace.com
i've never seen something like that before...
or maybe there's just some extra settings that you need to do that i dont know... -_-

seaspirit · August 15, 2003, 02:08:25 AM

do you say you are using the free host in www.myjspace.com [nofollow]?

[Unknown] · November 07, 2003, 01:28:43 AM

I'm moving this to general discussion, although it's already builtin so to speak.

-[Unknown]

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