To view Japanese source code

Difficulties

[wolfy]

I've this problem:

I found a web site and I really would like to view their source code ( site is just in HTML ) , unfortunately I can't read the Title, Meta Tags etcc.. because I see only numbers. The site is in Japanese but I've tried to view the source both on a normal PC and on a Japanese OS and nothing to do. I downloaded all the possible windows updates and I also download the web site and tried to put inside a charset but still nothing to do ..

Any suggestion?

[Damian]

Where you able to determine for sure the problem is caused by the Japanese characters? Maybe the source is protected (encoded) by something like Weblock or Html Guard?

[takagi]

Hello Wolfy,

Stickymail me the URL, and I will give it a try.

Takagi.

[tedster]

Be sure to let us know if you find out what's going on - I know that I'm curious about this one. Thanks in advance.

[bill]

I'm a little late on this one wolfy but I'll take a look if you want...

[wolfy]

Thanks to everyone,
I'll let you know if I solved or not the problem.

takagi, bill see your sticky mail
I'll give a reward to the faster in solving the problem :)

[takagi]

Hello Wolfy,

The numbers you saw are Unicode numbers.

Usually Japanese pages are in Shift-JIS (charset=Shift_JIS), where 2 bytes are used for one character. A similar method is used when pages are written in Unicode (charset=utf-8), which also makes symbols from other languages possible like Korean, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, etc.

The page you mentioned has a special way to show a Japanese string. For each character, &#<5-digit-code>; is used. This way each character needs 8 bytes. But every plain ASCII editor can be used to enter the code (if you know the code). And when copy/pasting, no unwanted conversion is done. This coding is similar to the copyright symbol that can be coded as '&copy;' or as '&169;' .

To take the title-tag; the first 16 bytes are: &#28023;&#12398;

But on a PC that can visualize Japanese characters, this is automatically converted.

The first character in the title has the meaning: sea and has the code 28023. The second character is a hiragana 'no' and in Unicode the number is 12398.

I hope my explanation is good enough. But if you need more information, please let me know by a message in this thread or by stickymail.

[bill]

It is obvious that takagi sleeps a lot less than I do ;)

He is right that the page is encoded in UTF-8 Unicode. It can be really difficult to look up all the codes so I suggest you cut and past the source into the tool at the bottom half of this page [kanzaki.com]. That page is in Japanese but has some useful tools for when you get unreadable JIS and Unicode text in your e-mail or source viewer. It will convert the gibberish into Japanese for you.

Hope this helps.

[wolfy]

Takagi and Bill:

thanks a lot!

I've used the tool on that page and it reall works fine, no I can see what I wanted to see!

wolfy

[bill]

...so who gets the prize? ;)

[wolfy]

And the winner is...

Bill and Takagi first place in two , you will share a half pint of beer at next PubConf in London :)

thanks guys!

[takagi]

I might not be there, next PubConf in London. Anyway, it is a first prize. And I'm only 'New User' to this forum. So looks like a nice start.

[wolfy]

<I might not be there, next PubConf in London.>

You should have to come there.

< Anyway, it is a first prize. And I'm only 'New User' to this forum. So looks like a nice start.>

great start really!