japanese characters in Dreamweaver

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japanese characters in Dreamweaver

japanese characters won't show up

nao_midori

1:49 am on Jul 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm trying to type Japanese in Dreamweaver MX 6.0, but all that shows up are question marks. I have the Japanese character set installed on my operating system and have no problem typing it in Microsoft Word, Excel, etc and Photoshop. Please help!

bill

2:50 am on Jul 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

I don't have DW, but sometimes with a WYSIWYG program it's good to type the Japanese in the HTML source, not through the WYSIWYG. Try that.

nao_midori

7:13 am on Jul 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thank you, but I'm afraid typing it into code didn't work. As far as I know, it's supposed to be able to show Japanese characters, but I just haven't found out how to make it work yet...

bill

7:16 am on Jul 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm stretching here as I don't know DW, but is there a page encoding setting somewhere? Is the charset set for Japanese or UTF-8? That might be it...

nao_midori

6:14 pm on Jul 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

I tried something similar to that. In Preferences, there's an option for enabling double-byte inline input, but that hasn't helped. In the fonts preferences, it shows that I do have Japanese and have the fonts necessary.

bill

8:18 am on Jul 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hmm...maybe there's a DW person here who can help?

Try putting this in your HTML and see how it works:

<html lang="jp">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-sjis">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="jp">
<meta name="language" content="jp">

Of course you can use whatever Japanese charset you like. This is just an example. Maybe this will help DW be more cooperative.

nao_midori

8:10 pm on Jul 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

thank you for your suggestion, but i'm afraid that piece of coding didn't work. i was told to go to page properties and change the document encoding which worked and so now i can type in japanese. thanks for your input though!

caine

11:41 am on Jul 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

replace "jp" with "ja" encoding variables below

Encoding: euc-jp, shift_jis, utf-8 (Unicode)
Lang Code: ja (not "jp" for Japan)

Worth having a nose at this also MM's contributions to encoding for non latin based language. [macromedia.com] and PennState's College Info on DW and Encoding Problems and Solutions [tlt.its.psu.edu]