Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/12/08 23:06

Scripsit Fister:

> How do I get Chinese characters to show correctly in IE6?

This is a long story, but you could make it shorter by providing a URL.

> They're all displayed as a square symbol. The page looks fine in IE7
> and Firefox.

The symptoms suggest that the problem might be in the browser, or in the
system, which might lack a font containing Chinese characters.

> This is the header:

So what? If there's an HTTP header specifying the charset, then your
meta tag for it is ignored. So what's the URL?

> I've tried writting the Chinese characters as themselves and their
> unicode character reference, e.g. 〹 but none of them show
> correctly in
> IE6.

Is 〹 a Chinese character?

Anyway, character references should work independently of encoding, and
IE 6 has no problem with this. But there might be a font problem. Can
you type Chinese characters anywhere, e.g. in the CharMap program?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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