Building a Chinese website - assistance appreciated

[jacobyte]

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

[TangoAlpha]

Character Encoding?

[scorp]

[pedant]Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken languages, the written ones are called traditional and simplified[/pedant]

Why not use UTF16 encoding, thats worked for me in the past for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Edited by scorp on Wednesday 31st January 03:48

[jacobyte]

Thanks all, I think we have a winner