Re: Chinese characters in IE6 now showing correctly

Scripsit Fister:

How do I get Chinese characters to show correctly in IE6?

This is a long story, but you could make it shorter by providing a URL.

They're all displayed as a square symbol. The page looks fine in IE7
and Firefox.

The symptoms suggest that the problem might be in the browser, or in the
system, which might lack a font containing Chinese characters.

This is the header:

So what? If there's an HTTP header specifying the charset, then your
meta tag for it is ignored. So what's the URL?

I've tried writting the Chinese characters as themselves and their
unicode character reference, e.g. 〹 but none of them show
correctly in
IE6.

Is 〹 a Chinese character?

Anyway, character references should work independently of encoding, and
IE 6 has no problem with this. But there might be a font problem. Can
you type Chinese characters anywhere, e.g. in the CharMap program?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Hello Jukka,

How do I get Chinese characters to show correctly in IE6?
This is a long story, but you could make it shorter by providing a
URL.

On the page below the characters look fine in IE7 and Firefox but not in IE6:

http://www.pinyin.info/tools/convert...ninumbers.html

Do I need to install something to get looking correctly in IE6?

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:02:14
GMT Fister scribed:

How do I get Chinese characters to show correctly in IE6?
This is a long story, but you could make it shorter by providing a
URL.

On the page below the characters look fine in IE7 and Firefox but not
in IE6:

http://www.pinyin.info/tools/convert...ninumbers.html

Do I need to install something to get looking correctly in IE6?

I don't see any Chinese in anything (except the gif.) In your text, I get
question marks with Firefox and boxes with IE 7.

The page doesn't validate, which may be part of the problem. The converter
seems to depend on javascript which, since that's the whole purpose of the
page, is a problem, too.

--
Neredbojias
Riches are their own reward.

Fister wrote:

Hello Jukka,

How do I get Chinese characters to show correctly in IE6?
This is a long story, but you could make it shorter by providing a
URL.

On the page below the characters look fine in IE7 and Firefox but not in
IE6:

http://www.pinyin.info/tools/convert...ninumbers.html

Do I need to install something to get looking correctly in IE6?

Looks fine for me with IE7, 6.01, 5.5, 5.01, 4.01 fails on IE3 ;-) I
think it is a system setup problem, not browser specific.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Scripsit Fister:

On the page below the characters look fine in IE7 and Firefox but not
in IE6:
http://www.pinyin.info/tools/convert...ninumbers.html

People's reports on this seem differ in a puzzling way.

The page uses a somewhat complicated method to refer to style sheets.
Maybe some references don't work on all browsers. Have you tested with
CSS turned off? (Either using a scriptlet or simply testing with a copy
of the page with all CSS stuff removed.)

Perhaps IE 6 tries to use (due to CSS) a font that does not contain the
Chinese characters needed, even though IE 6 thinks it does.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Fister wrote:

http://www.pinyin.info/tools/convert...ninumbers.html

"Sorry, this converter won't work in your browser. Please try using a
more modern, standards-compliant browser such as Opera (my favorite),
Mozilla, or Mozilla Firebird."

Firebird? That's been dead and buried for years. Maybe you should do a
little modernizing yourself.

--
Berg