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adding chinese characters to a cache page


nollscoffen

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I'd like to create a cache where the text is in chinese; however once I copy/paste it to the cache name and description the only thing I get is several "?????"

 

I've seen chinese characters in other cache pages (such as this one), so I know it's not a matter of missing any browser language packages or something similar.

 

Any help? :laughing:

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The funny thing is that, while at home, I saw chinese characters on that page and while pasting the results from babelfish to the cache description - the only problem was publishing the cache page itself...

 

The problem with the image is that... well, no one here in Portugal would understand/translate it. :laughing:

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The funny thing is that, while at home, I saw chinese characters on that page and while pasting the results from babelfish to the cache description - the only problem was publishing the cache page itself...

 

The problem with the image is that... well, no one here in Portugal would understand/translate it. :laughing:

There is no other solution. To display Chinese characters requires a software installation on most Windows machines. Most people won't have that.

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The characters display properly on my Mac and on Linux. Both which have most Chinese fonts installed already.

 

As for the some characters returning squares, this happens when a different encoding is used. Japanese for example, there are 3 major encodings which I see very frequently, however one must specify they are the ending in the page else it will not work properly.

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A tedious workaround, but still a workaround, is to use your local computer to type out the Chinese characters, screenshot them, save it as an image (.jpg), and post the image on the website. I did this with Russian characters, and it works fine. If you screenshot the characters in OO or Word or whatnot (using a white background), and you carefully add the images to your cache page, it looks just like text.

 

MrW.

 

[edit: eye tip gud]

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