Not sure where to post this, please forgive me if it's in the wrong forum.
Well, I recently set up phpBB on my server and installed the Japanese language for my Japanese friends. They've made a few posts and it seems like their Japanese words aren't showing up. But when I type Japanese using my computer, there's no problem.
I tried searching phpBB's knowledge base but couldn't find anything helpful.
Any suggestions and ideas of what could be wrong?
Thanks
Server info:
IIS6.0, Windows2003 Enterprise.
PHP4, MySQL4.1 (all tables are UTF-8)
problem entering Japanese in phpBB
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This line of html code?
Yup, it's set to this.
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">Ah... I think I found the problem.
May be a wrong explanation but here goes:
The Japanese language files for phpBB sets the charset to shift_jis. And somehow, either PHP, phpBB, MySQL or IIS6.0 cannot interpret data sent with shift_jis encoding.
The language files are encoded in shift_jis and I'm trying to convert them to UTF-8 with no success. Anyone familiar with this?
May be a wrong explanation but here goes:
The Japanese language files for phpBB sets the charset to shift_jis. And somehow, either PHP, phpBB, MySQL or IIS6.0 cannot interpret data sent with shift_jis encoding.
The language files are encoded in shift_jis and I'm trying to convert them to UTF-8 with no success. Anyone familiar with this?