raea01 Posted December 3, 2004 at 09:28 PM Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 at 09:28 PM Please tell me how to stop text such as this appearing Ô´´ÎÄѧ | Ðþ»Ã | ÒôÀÖ | BBS | Á¬Ðø¾ç ? thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted December 4, 2004 at 12:09 AM Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 12:09 AM You will have to tell us where this text is appearing. In what operating system, program, browser etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted December 4, 2004 at 09:42 AM Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 09:42 AM That is almost certainly Guobiao, a character-encoding for Chinese text used on the mainland. The problem is that whatever program you are using either (1) does not support Guobiao, or (2) supports it, but is guessing the encoding wrong. Unless you're doing something really unexpected, your problem is probably #2. In a web-browser you can fix this manually by specifying the encoding. In Internet Explorer, go to "View-->Encoding" and select either GB2312 or GB18030. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raea01 Posted December 4, 2004 at 02:20 PM Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 02:20 PM i use internet explorer (latest version) i have tried 18030 ,2312 and all the other encoding available on windows I either get a blank page or this type of jargon ¾Ç²ß©Ò¦³ªº¤¤¤å½ from the site (http://chineseon.net/student.php) i am unsure of where to go next. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Posted December 4, 2004 at 06:19 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 06:19 PM I've checked the site you mention, and it uses GB2312 encoding. Unlike some sloppily-developed websites, it specifies the encoding in an HTML meta header, which should make it unnecessary for you to manually select it. One question: Can you usually see Chinese characters on your computer? I'm asking because if you cannot see the Chinese characters on that website, I actually doubt it that you can see them in any other Chinese-language site. It looks as if you have a non-Chinese operating system, and haven't installed the language pack for simplified Chinese. If that's the case, and if you use Windows, go to the "Tools -> Windows Update" option on the main menu of Internet Explorer. The Microsoft Windows Update web page will be opened, and you can search for available updates. You should be able to find a language pack for simplified Chinese. After you install it, the Chinese characters on the site you mention should be displayed correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted December 4, 2004 at 06:51 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 06:51 PM If you have Windows XP, it won't be in Windows Update. Instead, go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Language tab, check "Install files for East Asian languages" and click OK. It may prompt you for your Windows XP CD though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raea01 Posted December 4, 2004 at 09:42 PM Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 09:42 PM you aren't going to like this but I have XP and i checked the asian languages in the control panel and I have put them on. So i went back to (http://chineseon.net/student.php) and when i tried the gb 2312/18030 again but i just got blank pages and i tried other encoding but either got that jargon again or jargon and part arabic. :-( any suggestions ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted December 4, 2004 at 10:10 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 at 10:10 PM Hmm... the only other thing I can think of is to try another browser... might I suggest Firefox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted December 5, 2004 at 06:03 AM Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 at 06:03 AM This is really strange.... I know it might be a long-shot, but are you using a redirect of some sort (proxy server, channeling your fetch request through Apache or another local program)? If you save the file locally and open it using your browser, do the chinese characters display properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Posted December 5, 2004 at 02:03 PM Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 at 02:03 PM enable chinese as the language for non-unicode programs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Posted December 5, 2004 at 10:12 PM Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 at 10:12 PM Howard, do you really think that is necessary for viewing Chinese websites?? I think that option affects Windows programs with a user interface in Chinese/Japanese/Korean, but raea01 is simply trying to view a web page that displays Chinese characters. I have never had any problem viewing Chinese websites with Windows 98/2000/XP, or with Linux, as long as the Chinese fonts are installed. raea01, are you sure you've installed the East Asian language stuff? Can you see other Chinese websites without problems? What happens if you open "cn.yahoo.com"? Or "hk.yahoo.com"? Can you see the Chinese characters in either site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest Posted December 6, 2004 at 06:06 AM Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 at 06:06 AM delete your browser cache, reset ur IE settings, reinstall the font files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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