[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[William Downs]

Hi Bob,

hmm, I would have imagined that this was only the case if the file
names themselves were in Japanese, in which case the charset Shift_JIS
should be used, otherwise it should be OK, but then I am no real
expert on the subjecty

William

On 8/15/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> After spending 27 hours on a project for a firm that does Japanese
> translation work, they're now telling me that they're unable to use
> the UTF-8 encoding that I used on all their forms.
>
> According to my client, if we use UTF-8 on the forms, they'll not
> show properly on some Windows machines. Is this true?
>
> I'm using this tag:
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> My client wants to use:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=Shift_JIS" />
>
> When I try to use his META tag, the forms don't process, and I get a
> 958 error (I think that was the #).
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this? I'm now worried that they're
> going to stiff me on almost $2000 outstanding, so this is a serious
> situation.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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