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Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.
by mike-cardwell 16y ago
Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered:
これは、いくつかの日本です
Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.
- zach 16y agoObviously, you entered it on a non-Japanese-speaking corkboard.
- pshapiro 16y agoI think you mean, "いくつかの日本語"... :)
- kazuya 16y agoIt still doesn't make much sense, but I don't want to start Japanese lessons here... Anyhow, some DBMS default the character encoding to ASCII (or ISO8859), not UTF, and Western developers often don't care.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoI don't speak Japanese, I just went to translate.google.com and entered some text to get a sample. I can't even remember what I entered.
- pshapiro 16y agoOh yeah you're probably right about that. Good work. By the way, any suggestions on that phrase? I'm not a native speaker so my Japanese isn't very good.
- harisenbon 16y agoThat's strange, Japanese input worked for me. (Chrome / Japanese Win7) Maybe they fixed it?
- harisenbon 16y agoNevermind, you can write, just not save. I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...
- kazuya 16y agoThat could be the case. I often don't notice encoding issues until my colleagues complain their entries in Japanese are messed up.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoThis is one of the first things I test when I find a site like this. Most web developers don't seem to take into consideration things like character sets and encoding, yet they are so important.
- pshapiro 16y agoDo you know if your input method produces unicode? That could be the difference.