[FX.php List] Problem with text formatting

[Troy Meyers]

Bob,

I think what Kevin is saying, is that once you change the META in the file, you also need to _save_ the file with the Shift_JIS encoding. If you are using BBEdit, look at the dropdown menus at the bottom of the window. One of them probably says "Western (Mac OS Roman)" or better, "Unicode (UTF-8)" but you should click on it and change it to "Japanese (Shift JIS)" and then save the file. That way the file encoding matches what you are declaring in the META tag.

Is that what you meant, Kevin?

-Troy


> 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 The Shift_JIS encoding has been entirely superseded by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: