Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Edward Middleton wrote:

> > [LHS] I'm having trouble creating Japanese pages for my site - while I 
> > can post them in Japanese and they display in Japanese, when looking at  
> > the Page Source, it shows only computer code and no recognizable language.  
> > .......... the link I'm putting here for an example:
> > http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/i_i_v/jpage/f1/TokyoMtrShwJ01.html
> se a japanese character encoding.  Your pages are in
> ISO-8859-1 encoded as can be seen from the source
>
> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
>
> ISO-8859-1 does not support japanese characters so the characters are
> encoded with "numeric character references" see
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#entities
>  
Thanks - I'll do what is necessary to remedy that.

> > - but they were created with a bloody MicroMuck box with Netscape 4.0.  
> > I need to put together Japanese pages with Linux.  How can I get 
> > Japanese text on the page that will be recognizable to the Internet as 
> > Japanese and not computer code garbage?
> hat makes you think that encoded japanese characters are
> not "recognizable to the Internet"?

Google AdSense... it's picking up that the other pages are Japanese and 
displaying Japanese, but for that page (and the Concert Halls page 
before I redid it) it doesn't seem to be seeing any Japanese and so it 
is putting English on the page....

Lyle