charset problem

[seabiscuit]

ok. i dont know how to work my forum in euc-jp (japanese)

<?php

// Set the meta tag/doctype for this language
$contentmeta = "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=euc-jp\" />";

this is what i have at the head of my japanese.php.

i sat the language to japanese and i looked at some translated phrases, but they were just jibberish.

What do i have to do? Thanks in advance!

[Chuck S]

Do a search on the internet for the correct encoding

Try instead of euc-jp maybe utf-8?

[seabiscuit]

it doesnt work. vBulletin has had continuous problems with double byte character encodings. As far as i know, u cant even search in Chinese language even though CHinese is a semi-officially published language. I've tried everything, but it just doesnt work.


Say, does photopost vBgallery have vBulletin-built in phrase translation system (it sure sounds like it does)?
If so i would like to exchange photopost with 2 vBgallery licenses, and i would be willing to pay any deficits.

Im sorry but I just cant use an English program targeted towards the Japanese.

Please give me some advices.

[Chuck S]

There is no japanese support for vbgallery. vbulletin does not have in phrase translation system they have language packs much like we do. There are no language packs for japanese in our products nor do we claim to support japanese on our site. However as I noted you can create a japanese language file. I think your issue is in your encoding and using the proper one. This is what you need to research to make it work. We support arabic quite fine.

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Have you tried this one?

http://www.itnews.org.uk/w_qrefs/w_i...p_charsets.cfm

[seabiscuit]

thank you for the reply chuck.

Unfortunately, my site stubbornly refuses to work with utf-8, utf8-bin or euc-jp. or several other japanese encodings.

However, i found out my site will work with shift_jis encoding by itself. The problem is, I want to integrate it with my vBulletin which uses euc-jp encoding.

So i was wondering if u would know a way integrate these two forums, and yet have different prompt to charsets.

Put simply, "Do you want to enable the vB3 Integration which uses your vB3 headers, footers and styles?" I want to choose "yes" to this question, but use different encoding from vBulletin.

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'photopost'"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=euc-jp" /></if>

<if condition="photopost"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=shift_jis" /></if>

something like this in the head template of vBulletin that will work. Obviously, i pulled the above code out of my butt, so it wont work, but maybe you can help me with a correct code?

Please help. Thanks in advance!

[Chuck S]

We load any charset like vbulletin does so sorry I am not understanding what your specific issue without vb is. If you set the language in Photopost to japanese your mets tag should be loaded from your japanese file so you should be fine.

[seabiscuit]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

We load any charset like vbulletin does so sorry I am not understanding what your specific issue without vb is. If you set the language in Photopost to japanese your mets tag should be loaded from your japanese file so you should be fine.

i will pay you fifty bucks to have my photopost work in euc-jp integrated into vBulletin forum.

u dont have to translate it or do anything. Just the simply configuration that you make it sound so easy, because after translating the entire vbulletin, vblogetin and couple other plug-ins, i cant translate nor integrate photopost into Japanese euc-jp.

I really like photopost, and i want to work with it.

If this is a deal, please send me a pm and i will send you the username and password for my cpanel, db and vbulletin.

Since setting the language is so easy, i assume US$50 is enough?

[seabiscuit]

so no take on the job offer of easy $50 for configuration into Japanese?
euc-jp is one of the universally supported encodings in the world, used by yahoo Japan.

Why, you make it sound so easy that you could finish it in 10 minutes.


My previous post from differen thread

I intend to translate it to Japanese, which uses two bite character encoding, so things often go wrong.

to which you replied there is no real problem, and that language configuration was as easy as just changing heading of the language.php file.

so will you either help me with this damn configuration or give me an apology that you were wrong? i dont want to keep coming here and hear you tell me to do research and get correct encoding.

[Chuck S]

With your response above do you expect someone to help you with your custom language that is not a support aspect of our program?

I can take a look at your site with the japanese language selected if you post a link and give you any thoughts I have but as I previously stated as long as your loading the proper encoding you should be fine.

[seabiscuit]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

but as I previously stated as long as your loading the proper encoding you should be fine.

first of all, i apologize for using harsh language. but secondly you just make me keep repeating myself; i have tried every possible japanese encoding and it doesnt work.

And I dont think i am even asking for support. I am just asking to have photopost configured with japanese; which is what you guys told me was possible before my purchase.

www.sportnippon.com/forum This is my forum
www.sportnippon.com/art This is my Photopost.

i have tried the following encoding header tags.

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The only one that semi-works is
// Set the meta tag/doctype for this language
$contentmeta = "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=shift_jis\" />"; But this will jibberish my navbar and footer, because my forum is encoded in euc-jp.

[seabiscuit]

Ok. Chalk. Good news. You wont hear me moan and complain about charset again.


Just incase u run into people like me again, Ill let you know what happened.

Maybe its because my machine is running on Japanese Windows, but all the text documents are saved with shift_jis encoding. So whenever i save japanese on my computer (or whenever anyone save japanese files on their computer), the default is set at shift_jis.

So what i need to do, is save my document as euc-jp (or utf-8) on my computer. To do that, you need to open Microsoft Word, than save the document as webpage, than choose the .txt extension. MS Word will notify you they cant save double-byte characters, and ask you what to do. Here, you need to choose the correct font and encoding (not all fonts are available in double byte characters).



well, i again apologize for being harsh earlier on. But i really liked this program and wanted it to work really bad.

Thank you for your time

[Chuck S]

Makes alot of sense as to why it was not able to be displayed in euc-jp