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problem entering Japanese in phpBB

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:01 pm
by wyred
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)

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:19 pm
by feyd
may need to recode the pages to UTF8 as well.. i.e. setting the character set used by the html output...

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:34 pm
by wyred
This line of html code?

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Yup, it's set to this.

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:49 pm
by feyd
and their browsers support UTF8 ? They may be set to only do Shift-JIS

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:11 pm
by wyred
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?