Building a Chinese website - how does that work?
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We have a requirement for a Chinese language verson of a UK website we're doing.
In the past we've built multi-lungual Content Managed websites, but all using the Western alphabet (which allows for circonflexes, umlauts, etc).
So, as a test I tried pasting some text from a random Chinese website into our Rich Text Editor and it appeared to paste in fine - i.e. all the chinese characters appeared as expected.
Hitting "save" enters the updated text into a SQL database. Then hitting "Publish" creates an XML file with all meta data and content for that page, which is then shoved into an XSL stylesheet onto an aspx page.
But in tihs instance, when publishing and then viewing the live page, it was just the usual gibberish code that you'd see in a plain text editor.
What is the missing link? Anyone? (Not sure if it's Cantonese or Mandarin - we'll get to that later!)
Cheers
EDIT: I thought I'd put this in Business, but I guess it should really go into Computers and Stuff. I'll re-post it there.
In the past we've built multi-lungual Content Managed websites, but all using the Western alphabet (which allows for circonflexes, umlauts, etc).
So, as a test I tried pasting some text from a random Chinese website into our Rich Text Editor and it appeared to paste in fine - i.e. all the chinese characters appeared as expected.
Hitting "save" enters the updated text into a SQL database. Then hitting "Publish" creates an XML file with all meta data and content for that page, which is then shoved into an XSL stylesheet onto an aspx page.
But in tihs instance, when publishing and then viewing the live page, it was just the usual gibberish code that you'd see in a plain text editor.
What is the missing link? Anyone? (Not sure if it's Cantonese or Mandarin - we'll get to that later!)
Cheers
EDIT: I thought I'd put this in Business, but I guess it should really go into Computers and Stuff. I'll re-post it there.
Edited by jacobyte on Tuesday 30th January 16:41
davidd said:
Does your browser have the correct character set?
I believe so. I can see all text on a chinese website (e.g. www.google.cn ), and then copy&paste into a rich text editor. As it keeps it all in view, then it must be correct, otherwise I would get those square blocks instead, no?
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