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Shift_jis encoding changing to Unicode in expression engine!!!

July 14, 2010 11:27pm

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  • #1 / Jul 14, 2010 11:27pm

    jsks16

    31 posts

    Ok I am having a serious problem.  My client’s Japanese page is encoded in shift_jis. I have the doctype set correctly, and it works perfectly find on the static pages.  However when I copy and paste the same working code into expression engine, it is not encoding into Shift_jis.  Rather it is encoding everything into unicode, and I am getting garbage instead of Japanese unless I change my browser to Unicode.

      Personally I prefer unicode, but it never seems to work well on my clients japanese computers so they want shift_jis

    what can i do to make sure my japanese pages are displaying in the correct format?

  • #2 / Jul 15, 2010 5:43am

    John Henry Donovan

    12339 posts

    jsks16,

    What’s in the header of your template in EE?
    Have you got a link to one of these pages?

  • #3 / Jul 15, 2010 9:12am

    jsks16

    31 posts

    jsks16,

    What’s in the header of your template in EE?
    Have you got a link to one of these pages?

    Thanks for the reply John.  Unfortunately everything we have is still in development so I cant share the link until the site is open.

    The header is 

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html ><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/basic-event.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --> 
<head> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=shift_jis" />

    This was provided my my japanese coworker.  It looks fine on the static page, but it doesn’t seem to render in EE.

    I changed it to 

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html > 
<head> 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

    and the utf-8 seems to work well with my computer, but my coworkers sometimes have problems with it. 

    It may not even be an EE problem at all, but a problem in the cutting and pasting of the code from the static page to the EE page… I dont know for certain.

  • #4 / Jul 15, 2010 9:29am

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    You’re having encoding issues here. It’s important that you use the same encoding for both your EE control panel as well as the public site. I really do recommend using UTF-8 for that, but if you insist on using shift_jis you must set your Default Character Set to it, too, ensuring that your CP actually encodes them correctly.

    I have no experience with Japanese myself, but perhaps you could ask the guys over at http://expression-engine.jp? I’m sure they have a few handy tips.

  • #5 / Jul 15, 2010 9:41am

    jsks16

    31 posts

    You’re having encoding issues here. It’s important that you use the same encoding for both your EE control panel as well as the public site. I really do recommend using UTF-8 for that, but if you insist on using shift_jis you must set your Default Character Set to it, too, ensuring that your CP actually encodes them correctly.

    I have no experience with Japanese myself, but perhaps you could ask the guys over at http://expression-engine.jp? I’m sure they have a few handy tips.

    Thanks again

    I perfer utf-8 too!  It is so much easier to work with.  Shift_jis was developed in part my microsoft and has a few of those MS issues…

    But I will check the japanese page too.  thanks again

  • #6 / Jul 15, 2010 9:44am

    Ingmar

    29245 posts

    Sounds good. Please let us know in case there’s anything else we can do for you.

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