CMS for Chinese Sites

Anyone use a CMS to manage Chinese Sites?

[snair]

Here's the problem that I'm encountering. My site is in Big5 and now I want to integrate a CMS into it.

Now the CMSes that I've looked into--typo3, joomla, wordpress (not really a CMS, but simple enough for my site)--does allow for Big5 sites.

HOWEVER, the application itself uses UTF8 internally. So I run into problems because the app is UTF8, but the site is Big5 and so the characters are all messed up.

SO I'm wondering if others are using a CMS that can handle this?

Thanks for any help!

[bill]

I've used MovableType for a few Chinese sites. The back end is in English though. MovableType signed a deal with Bokee [sixapart.com] in China last year. If you need a Chinese back end interface you need to contact Bokee.

Another CMS that works with Chinese is Drupal. They have full localization projects for several Asian languages.

[snair]

Thanks for the suggestion Bill!

[59box]

You can consider turning the Big5 into UTF8 and use UTF8.

Using UTF8 as a standard can save you headaches later on.
Most applications are moving towards using UTF8.

[edited by: Woz at 4:07 am (utc) on Mar. 30, 2007]
[edit reason] Tidying up. [/edit]

[leunga]

Use UTF-8 is future proof and you will not get any advantage to continue Big-5 unless your old content are sticky to it.