Dear experts, In my application, Chinese characters work great in the body of the page. However, in the title, they appear as boxes instead of something like " ???????? ". I also noticed CNET having the same issue: http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm So my question to experts here is that is it possible to show Chinese characters properly in the title? Thanks Frank Want to read my Pro Rails book or Pro Server Management book? Become a beta reader now. Write me to learn more. Rails Blog: http://railsruby.blogspot.com MySQL Blog: http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com Linux / Security Blog: http://frankmash.blogspot.com Programming One Liners: http://programming-oneliners.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060324/287928de/attachment-0001.html
I don''t see any problem of CNET Chinese title in my firefox under XP English version. Frank wrote:> I also noticed CNET having the same issue: > http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm >-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> I don''t see any problem of CNET Chinese title in my firefox > under XP English version.If it helps, I see the characters in the title at that URL, too, in both Firefox 1.5 and MSIE 5.5 on a Windows 2000 box, English version, and with Chinese language fonts installed.
Thanks Sky for your reply. Do you see boxes on the title of this URL? http://blogs.adoppt.com/blog/yang/-20 Frank Sky Yin <sky.yin@gmail.com> wrote: I don''t see any problem of CNET Chinese title in my firefox under XP English version. Frank wrote:> I also noticed CNET having the same issue: > http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm >-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails Want to read my Pro Rails book or Pro Server Management book? Become a beta reader now. Write me to learn more. Rails Blog: http://railsruby.blogspot.com MySQL Blog: http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com Linux / Security Blog: http://frankmash.blogspot.com Programming One Liners: http://programming-oneliners.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060325/8743618b/attachment.html
That''s bizarre cause I am using Firefox (English) with XP too and I see tiny boxes. What character-set is default on your machine? Frank Dean Matsueda <dmatsueda@bsr.org> wrote: > I don''t see any problem of CNET Chinese title in my firefox> under XP English version.If it helps, I see the characters in the title at that URL, too, in both Firefox 1.5 and MSIE 5.5 on a Windows 2000 box, English version, and with Chinese language fonts installed. _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails Want to read my Pro Rails book or Pro Server Management book? Become a beta reader now. Write me to learn more. Rails Blog: http://railsruby.blogspot.com MySQL Blog: http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com Linux / Security Blog: http://frankmash.blogspot.com Programming One Liners: http://programming-oneliners.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060325/577b4757/attachment-0001.html
Frank, obviously you have to install Chinese fonts. Title bar is managed by the OS, even though Firefox has its own Chinese fonts to show pages correctly. To do that in XP, it''s quite simple. Choose ''Regional and Language Options'' in the control panel, then in the ''Languges'' tab, check ''Install files for East Asian languages''. And later in the ''Advanced'' tab, select ''Chinese(PRC)'' as the option of ''Language for non-Unicode programs''. You may need an XP installation CD and have to restart once. That''s all for properly showing the title bar. Frank wrote:> That''s bizarre cause I am using Firefox (English) with XP too and I see > tiny boxes. >-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.