I have an issue of showing Chinese characters, look at these 2 pages.
http://www.wufangsingapore.com/instructor-junbeng.php
http://www.wufangsingapore.com/schedule.php
You will realised that the first link which I linked didn't have any issues with the Chinese characters while my second one is showing as ??? despite the fact that it is showing fine in cPanel. Both pages' charset in the meta tag are set to "charset=utf-8" which is supposed to be right. What could be the issue?
Both of them are just pure html, even though they are in PHP extension, they are not reading from any database.
Thanks!
WHile I didn't figure out what really happened.
This is what i did to make the chinese characters appear.
Open up the file in cPanel's File Manager and copy the whole chunk of PHP/HTML code onto the notepad
Save the notepad file as the file name again schedule.php
Reupload via Windows Explorer FTP.
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I looked for a solution to this but could not find an answer anywhere. I have a Question2Answer website in Cyrillic that displays the characters correctly in the browser, however, when I check the HTML source file, it looks like the text inside the question and the answer are displayed as &# numbers.
The characters on row 15 are not correctly displayed. As a result, when I try to edit a question/answer on my Android phone, the question or the answer is delivered with the encoding and it is not possible for the website users to edit their question/answer. (It still works on a computer but you can see that the characters are displayed wrong in the source file).
Please use this question on my website as a reference.
I tried to change the encoding via HtAccess:
AddDefaultCharset
UTF-8 DefaultLanguage bg-BG
However, this did not work. I am curious as to how to fix this problem. Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome.
I'm building a web page that uses Google WebFonts (open sans) on a PC and it works perfectly, but when I try it on a mac computer it shows a question mark within the text. Why is this?
The character you are seeing is the replacement character, which is used when a font does not contain a particular Unicode character, in this case, "ñ" AKA U+00F1 AKA "Latin small letter n with tilde".
Google Open Sans does contain this character, so it seems that Safari is not correctly getting the font from the web. The rendering engine is then reverting to another font, and that one is missing the offending character. You will be able to check in dev tools on your mac which font is being grabbed by your script.
I checked the script annotation you posted in the comment to your question. You are returning the fonts in the woff2 format. It turns out that woff2 is not supported in Safari as of version 9, but woff is. I therefore recommend changing the format to woff and serving it to your page locally:
Download the script you posted (http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,500,700)
Save it as a css file (e.g. fonts.css)
Find-and-replace woff2 to woff
Save the file
Add it to your web project (however you add your other files)
Replace #StyleSheet({"fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,500,700";}) with a reference to this newly uploaded file.
Solved! One of the developers had its Eclipse not set to UTF-8 so the file transfer using Git wasn't working properly...to check, go to Preferences>General>Workspace>Text file encoding and set to UTF-8
I have windows XP at home - home ed, with SP3. In any case, at College, they have windows 7. So, basically when I saved my documents and brought them here, things messed up. I was writing up a short bio.
I was coding my website, and so as usual I had used charset utf-8, the standard. But when I get home and I verify my website (locally), I see the weird characters appear! The triangle and the question mark inside it. So, then I'm like WTF? So I decide to go online and check which charset is better. So randomly, I fall onto windows-1252. Voila, it worked! But then, I decided to re-use charset utf-8, being the standard. I don't want to mess up my website lol.
So I basically go back inside my html document, just to notice that very weird characters appeared. So I delete them and replace them with the the apostrophe that were originally there. Finally, I check my website, and the apostrophes correctly appear.
So, what the hell is going on??? And should I keep using utf-8?
It sounds like the content of the webpage is actually encoded as Windows-1252 by whatever editor you are using, but you are manually writing a <meta> tag that states UTF-8 instead. That would account for the behavior you describe. An explicit charset declaration must match the actual encoding used by the data. When you tell your editor to save the document, make sure it is saving the data in the correct encoding you are expecting. Some editors do support multiple encodings, so don't just blindly use a default encoding if multiple encodings are available.
I have a problem I've noticed a while ago with a site I'm building.
I've been working with Joomla for a while now and I have never encountered such a problem.
On some components, like featured content, search, hwdvideoshare and some more, quotation marks seem to be added at the very top of the main content area. This causes an extra empty space that pushes the content down.
It's not really acceptable since I am designing a layout that has to be very precise.
Hopefully you guys can help me, I have tried everything.
Open the "index.php" file in the template with notepad++. Then from encoding choose "Convert to UTF8 without BOM", save and reload.
The issue was UTF8 with BOM.
However, it wasn't on the template file.
I started looking for what's in common in all the sites that added the empty space.
It was pagination. Converted the pagination file to UTF8 without BOM and works flawlessly now.
I have a simple vb6 editor type application which has a richtextbox as the editor page. It allows users to key in stuff and the store it into a file which will keep all the text in RTF stored as CDATA in xml.
When you load back the file, it will read it off the xml and load back the rtf. We allow for unicode editing, but my problem is I have a user which is using Windows XP, and they have some problems reading the chinese characters. They show up as gibberish in their pc.
It displays fine in both mine and a coworker's. I've already checked that they have the proper regional language and settings in their system. The install files for east asian language is already checked. And they can see chinese words on websites and even type them out.
I feel like I'm missing something here but I'm at a lost on what to check next? Any ideas on what I could test or check next?
my bad for the poor description skills, if anything is not clear just ask me.
thanks.
~steve
That is weird. Try confirming that your user have the same version of RICHTXT32.OCX ?
Could be a problem with font?
Try using font that supports unicode characters (Arial Unicode).
Or try going to a website with chinese characters and paste it into richtextbox, save it to a file and try loading it from the file.
Does that work?
well they should because i packed the app in vs installer setup package.
and for fonts, it's sim sun, and i've already checked with the users that they do have the sim sun fonts under window/fonts.
Btw i've already updated that the data is actually stored in xml under CDATA, although the rtf chunk is kept as it is.
okie, this seems to be the solution although i don't know why. in my msi setup file i've included the riched.dll so when i installed it in, the dll acts up and screw up my chinese character in the richtext control.
but when i repack to exclude that dll file and reinstall using that setup, it seems to work now...