ruthlessx Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get japanese characters to stay in my cache's description, after submitting they always get converted to ????? for some reason? Do I need some HTML or something? Link to comment
+GeoGeeBee Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get japanese characters to stay in my cache's description, after submitting they always get converted to ????? for some reason? Do I need some HTML or something? Yes, you need some HTML or something. And even then, it probably won't work. You can use HTML to specify the font, and then your Japanese characters should display... but if the person viewing the page hasn't installed the same font on his/her machine, they'll get junk. The easiest way to make sure that everyone else is seeing the characters you want them to see, is probably to convert the text to an image and display that image in your page. You'll still need some HTML or something to do that, though. Link to comment
+dfx Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) use HTML and unicode characters. the cache pages are in UTF-8, so you should be able to use that to display japanese characters (needs the proper font/coding support in the browsers of the people viewing the cache pages of course). for example (random characters): サドヸ should become: サドヸ Edited April 15, 2010 by dfx Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) use HTML and unicode characters. the cache pages are in UTF-8, so you should be able to use that to display japanese characters (needs the proper font/coding support in the browsers of the people viewing the cache pages of course). for example (random characters): サドヸ should become: サドヸ You could have replied earlier and saved me 1/2 hour of experimenting!! I've always been puzzled about how others seem to be able to enter 16 bit unicode without the site converting it to "?", and finally downloaded a GPX from a Japanese cache to examine the contents. Now question is, how do I convert Unicode text into ampersand entities? Should be a straightforward process, but I can't seem to find the answer. Edit : (answering my own question) : http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp Edited April 15, 2010 by Chrysalides Link to comment
+bittsen Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 No matter what you do you won't get the characters to display on paperless handheld GPS devices. Link to comment
+dfx Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 You could have replied earlier and saved me 1/2 hour of experimenting!! Edit : (answering my own question) : http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp see, by putting that edit in your post, you now saved me 5 minutes of googling Link to comment
+dfx Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 No matter what you do you won't get the characters to display on paperless handheld GPS devices. don't be so sure. my PDA opens the cache descriptions in a web browser and shows all HTML content. it doesn't show japanese because it doesn't have the appropriate font, but it would if it had. it displays many other unicode characters just fine. Link to comment
+bittsen Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 No matter what you do you won't get the characters to display on paperless handheld GPS devices. don't be so sure. my PDA opens the cache descriptions in a web browser and shows all HTML content. it doesn't show japanese because it doesn't have the appropriate font, but it would if it had. it displays many other unicode characters just fine. That's a device that has GPS capability. My phone would add the characters also, or an image for that matter. I was specifically referring to handheld GPS (only) devices. Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 That's a device that has GPS capability. My phone would add the characters also, or an image for that matter. I was specifically referring to handheld GPS (only) devices. If it's important to you, experiment with this: http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/message...w/home/20586629 Link to comment
+bittsen Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 That's a device that has GPS capability. My phone would add the characters also, or an image for that matter. I was specifically referring to handheld GPS (only) devices. If it's important to you, experiment with this: http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/message...w/home/20586629 Oh, it looks like I might be wrong. I'm disappointed in myself. That's the second time this year. Link to comment
ruthlessx Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) Okay so I'm getting the unicode, but not actual characters when the html is on? ペンを持参し、とのgeocacheを返すそれが発見されたとして。<br /> <br /> ややより実験異なっているのgeocachesのシリーズ。あなたはこれらを解決するためにウィットが必要になります。 グッドラック!<br /> <br /> (キタ━━━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━━━ !!!!!) I wonder if that worked [edit] apparently not... how do I fix this awful mess? Edited April 15, 2010 by ruthlessx Link to comment
+ShowStop Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 You could always generate the Japanese characters in another program and create an image of the characters. Not sure if that is the solution you are looking for. Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Moving to the Geocaching.com website forum. Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) Okay so I'm getting the unicode, but not actual characters when the html is on? ペンを I wonder if that worked [edit] apparently not... how do I fix this awful mess? Replace ━ with & #9473; (without the space between & and #) If it is a log, if you edit it a second time, it will do it for you automatically. Edited April 15, 2010 by Chrysalides Link to comment
+SandyCreekPirates Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 No matter what you do you won't get the characters to display on paperless handheld GPS devices. don't be so sure. my PDA opens the cache descriptions in a web browser and shows all HTML content. it doesn't show japanese because it doesn't have the appropriate font, but it would if it had. it displays many other unicode characters just fine. That's a device that has GPS capability. My phone would add the characters also, or an image for that matter. I was specifically referring to handheld GPS (only) devices. Not positive, but I don't think that's a requirement. Sounds like a puzzle cache, so it would make sense to work on the puzzle before attempting the cache anyway. My guess is that, unless fluent in Japanese, most people would have to do a little research on translating Japanese to their respective language. In this case, they should have access to a device that would display the characters. Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 (edited) Domo!!! Fyi, here are some sites that should help you convert your Japanese text into post-able codes. (IF you're fluent enough to type up your own Japanese text, that is HTML entity encoder http://geocaching.jog.buttobi.net/enc.html at http://geocaching.jog.buttobi.net/ I REALLY REALLY wish it would be much easier, by just typing in anything in any language, and will be posted AS IS. Good Luck! Dr.MORO Edited April 29, 2010 by Dr.MORO Link to comment
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