UTF-8 Japanese and IE 8

[Jon Gómez]

Andrew Poulos wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
Andrew Poulos wrote:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
May I presume the HTTP Content-Type header looks the same?
I don't know how to tell.
Search for "HTTP sniffer", or get an OS (even Cygwin will suffice) and run
`HEAD http://my.server.example/path' (should be in the `libwww-perl'
package). Or use `telnet my.server.example 80', wait for the welcome
message and type `HEAD /path HTTP/1.0<CR<LF><CR><LF>'. Or, if you need to
do it "the JavaScript way":
[XHR]

IIRC, Firebug (at least, recent versions) also displays response headers
in a "Net" tab under "Headers" tab of a single request (after collapsing
it). It shows both request and response ones.

But that would be so boring ... ;-)


PointedEars

I myself tend to use cURL. Should I switch to telnet?
Jon.

 

[Andrew Poulos]

AFAIK, you only need Support for East Asian Languages if you want to *type*
Han characters with an IME (Input Method Editor); you don't need it for
displaying those characters, especially not on Windows XP, where all vector
fonts should be OpenType fonts.


Good idea.

I did a fresh install of XP and IE 8 asked to install a language pack.
After I let it install the ideograms display correctly. I'm unsure what
I did wrong or how my setup may have been incomplete.

Andrew Poulos

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

...
I did a fresh install of XP and IE 8 asked to install a language pack.
After I let it install the ideograms display correctly. I'm unsure what
I did wrong or how my setup may have been incomplete.

My IE8 shows 3 possible Japanese encodings: Auto-Select (Japanese),
EUC and Shift-JIS.

But it appears there are many other variants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language_and_computers

Possibly you are using characters that do not fit into one of the 3
default Japanese encodings. Maybe you could check which new ones have
added after you installed the language pack, and then derive which set
displays them correctly and which not.

Personally I would still go for UTF-8 if possible.