Japanese character encoding

**Jiharo** · 01-09-2017, 03:02 AM

Hi,

May I know what happened to the character encoding? I used to be able to view Japanese text on this forum fine but after going on a hiatus for 4 months, my browser doesn't seem to recognise it anymore.

I can read Japanese text fine on other sites like I always do, it's just this forum that has this problem.

**Kalinsre** · 01-09-2017, 03:47 AM

On the lower left of the forum page there is a dropdown menu. Try choosing UTF8 and see if it helps.

**Jiharo** · 01-09-2017, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Kalinsre

On the lower left of the forum page there is a dropdown menu. Try choosing UTF8 and see if it helps.

It doesn't. I only have 2 options: UTF-8 EN and English (US)

What's the difference between UTF-8 EN and UTF-8? UTF-8 in the past works wonders, this UTF-8 EN doesn't.

Also, this forum have a tendency to not register my spacebar when I quote someone. Always have to cut the quote, reload the page, and then it works normally again. Is there some kind of problem here?

**Kalinsre** · 01-09-2017, 08:46 PM

@Jiharo What browser are you using and what encoding are you using for the browser? Just want to gather more info on this. Thanks.

**Jiharo** · 01-10-2017, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by Kalinsre

@Jiharo What browser are you using and what encoding are you using for the browser? Just want to gather more info on this. Thanks.

Chrome.

UTF-8, Shift-JIS, whatever that can let me read Japanese text fine on all other Japanese sites i visit.

Also the quoting function disables the spacebar issue. Is it my browser or is there something wrong with it?

**Setakat** · 01-10-2017, 07:54 AM

UTF8-EN allows the Japanese characters to show fine for me at any rate.

Also seconding the spacebar quote issue. If the spacebar is at the end of the text, it won't work, but as long as there a character to the right of the cursor, it'll work.
Can replicate in Chrome on both Windows and OSX.

**kazenorin** · 01-17-2017, 08:22 AM

@Jiharo

I suspect this is a forum setting.

Scroll to the bottom of a page on this forum (like this current page you're viewing).

On the lower left hand corner and above the credits and version stuff, you should see the theme you're currently using (Silent Blue should be the default) and the current forum encoding (English US and UTF-8EN to choose from)

Choose UTF-8EN and it should work fine.

To moderators and admin:
I suggest removing the English US option altogether to avoid confusions, since UTF8-EN should support just about everything.

**Jiharo** · 01-17-2017, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by kazenorin

@Jiharo

I suspect this is a forum setting.

Scroll to the bottom of a page on this forum (like this current page you're viewing).

On the lower left hand corner and above the credits and version stuff, you should see the theme you're currently using (Silent Blue should be the default) and the current forum encoding (English US and UTF-8EN to choose from)

Choose UTF-8EN and it should work fine.

To moderators and admin:
I suggest removing the English US option altogether to avoid confusions, since UTF8-EN should support just about everything.

I can see it already.in the forums.

Problem is thread title that contain Japanese text is un-viewable still.

**chronomeister** · 01-18-2017, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by kazenorin

To moderators and admin:
I suggest removing the English US option altogether to avoid confusions, since UTF8-EN should support just about everything.

I investigated this option. However, if your setting was on English US and I removed the English US option, you would be permanently stuck on English US and you would be unable to switch over to the correct one.