Shoutbox

I've come across a bit of a problem. How do I change the Japanese characters to entities? I'm using Dreamweaver, (a respectable html editor I think) but I can't find how to do it anywhere... help please

Yeah, please help him.. many of you have done it already for the msgplus.net translation and I can't sleep well knowing there is no Nippon version of the site

i've used http://www.editplus.com to do that. it's very user friendly and easy to use, but i don't know if it's compatible with japanese characters. but still worth of trying

Ok, got that one. How do I save the file so that all the Japanese characters are changed to code?

I tried changing ANSI to entities, but no changes...

This is what I did in Dreamweaver:

(The name of the buttons...etc may not be accurate as I'm using a Chinese one)

There is a screenshot attached, please click here.

1. Open a new html file.
2. Change the meta charset to iso-8859-1 first.
3. Click "split" button (between "source" and "design", on the left of the title of the html page). You'll see your working area split to: Upper the source code, down the actual visual stuff.
4. Type your Japanese characters in the visual stuff area.
5. You will see the converted corresponding &#xxxxx; codes in the source code area

It was a good suggestion, but the moment I change the page settings to iso-8859-1, it converts my Japanese characters to Ascii characters.

I don't understand why Japanese isn't compatible with .php though... I tested the page with the Japanese Shift-JIS settings and it works perfectly.

$LANG_charset="Shift_JIS";

I only have Internet Explorer, and am running on a Japanese computer, but I think it'd probably be the same for everyone.

Try this page, if you have any problems with it please let me know. Otherwise I think it should be good to go the way it is now.

http://www.msgplus.net/~translator/global.php?lang=jp

It looks good in FireFox 0.9 (can't read Japanese though). Only in the titlebar it says "Messenger Plus! | XXXXXXXXXX". Those X's look like squares.

The page loads fine. According to my Japanese Katakana knowledge, those Japanese characters seem to show correctly

although it shows up "good", it realy shouldn't be used like that though

Well yep, still the entities have to be used...