Site in Japanese

Title appears only in the Japanes version of IE Browser

[angiolo]

I am checking a Japanese site using IE (english version): of course not the language, but title, links, alt tags etc.

It is very strange that in the browse title appears only the URL site; the japanese title the japanese ( Meta Tag title ) doesn't appear. No problem with the image Alt tags.

Using Opera, the title appears (I suppose, because I get all the strange symbols as you get with IE without downloading Japanese characters)...

Why IE (6.0 English version) doesn't show the title?

[tedster]

There are some IE quirks I don't fully understand about characters in the Title property. From what I've read, IE depends on the Operating System to render the Title, and that introduces some problems with display of non-English character sets. I've read similar observations to yours about Chinese and Hebrew characters.

There is a related conversation on W3.org about setting the
HTTP content type header [lists.w3.org].

I'm assuming that your Japanese page's Title defaults to the URL.

(edited by: tedster at 6:39 am (utc) on Jan. 30, 2002)

[bill]

I have an English OS, with Asian language fonts installed, and have never run across the problem you describe using IE6. Is this happening with all Japanese pages?

[angiolo]

Thank you to all.

Yes, in all the japanese pages it appears the URL instead of the title.

I have the Japanese fonts installed. What is "comic" is that forcing the system to display European characters (and not Japanese) I get (of course) strange symbols in the page and in the title too.

We adopted English URLS. I know that we could have adopted pure Japanese URLS but in this case the site would have been available only to Japanese OS.

I computers with Japanese OS no poroblem at all. Everything works fine.

[bill]

We adopted English URLS. I know that we could have adopted pure Japanese URLS

What do you mean by this? Are you speaking of Japanese language domain names? To the best of my knowledge those 'multi-lingual' domain names are still in the testing phase. Even if you did buy one only a limited number of people could access it...they require special browser plug-in software now.

I have yet to see a Japanese language domain name being publicized in any major media in Japan. We've got a thread about Native Language Domain Names [webmasterworld.com] in the Asia and Pacific Region [webmasterworld.com] forum.

[angiolo]

> What do you mean by this? Are you speaking of Japanese language domain names?>

Yes! On searching for Japanese dominions we were offered the possibility to buy a pure Japanese url; finally we decided for

mydominion.jp

for the same reasons you stated.

The web (and technology) is moving so fast that maybe in the future it will be possible to switch all the menù, to the preferred language. A Japanese URL could be useful...

[bill]

Good choice :)

VeriSign and other registrars have been pushing this idea for a few years now it seems...but they neglect to tell you that a global system is not in place to handle these "multilingual" domain names.

I also hope that a system does evolve that will allow this to work, but it hasn't happened quite yet. Just don't be fooled by people selling these names...