[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[Bob Patin]

Kevin,

Thanks; I know nothing about all of this...

However, it's at least taking my forms and processing the input (both  
English and Japanese) without any problems, so that's good enough for  
me! :)

Bob Patin
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On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> Bob,
>
> The Shift_JIS encoding has been entirely superseded by Unicode, and  
> contains
> all necessary characters for display the Japanese character set. It is
> possible however that you might need to use UTF-16, as Japanese  
> character
> encoding is double-byte. I'm not sure that FileMaker will  
> understand either
> encoding though.
>
> Also remember what I said about the difference between the content  
> of a meta
> element and the actual document encoding. You can't switch from  
> UTF-8 to
> Shift_JIS unless you re-encode the document as Shift_JIS. You're  
> effectively
> telling the browser to process the document as Shift_JIS when it  
> isn't. The
> meta element is merely a label (like all meta data), but it needs  
> to be
> accurate.
>
> Here's one of the better articles around on the whole Unicode thing:

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