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My page uses UTF-8 encoding. It's in Japanese.
Both FF and Opera automatically recognize that it's UTF-8 and show it fine. Even IE shows it fine if I specifically choose the encoding as UTF-8.
But most Japanese people have their computers set to "Shift_JIS", and in IE, when this is set, nothing shows up on the page. It's a blank page.
Any idea if I can include some in my HTML to make sure the browser changes the encoding to UTF-8? It's a PHP page so I can also send some header if that will help.
I already have these lines:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//JP" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="jp">
<head><title>ƒ‰ƒCƒt</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
....
Thanks for any ideas!
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
As an alternative you could try to use numeric HTML enteties.
<title>ライフ</title>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//[b]EN[/b]"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">Then, you've incorrectly declared the language of the page. JP is the country code for Japan. The language code for Japanese is JA. Something like this would be better:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">Next, you might want to throw in the following to set the language in your meta tags:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ja">
<meta name="language" content="ja">
I'd suggest being very careful with XHTML 1.1, in fact I would suggest not using it at all. You would get a lot more flexibility and cross browser compatibility with XHTML 1.0, particularly if you use the Transitional DTD.
