Thanks, Richmond, this makes some sense. How then, would I encode fields as unicode so they display reliably?
Peter On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 08/20/2013 01:51 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The music history e-book we've been working on for the last couple of years >> has gotten to the point of having some people in China now translate large >> parts of it to Chinese. However when they open the compiled version on their >> Windows machines they see funny characters wherever we use an HTML entity in >> the HTMLtext of fields. Em dash, double quotation marks, accents, etc., all >> show this. >> >> In our classroom use of it, Chinese students at UCLA don't complain about >> this problem. I don't know much about system settings in Windows, but I see >> Chinese characters in the system settings for some of the UCLA students whom >> I have to do other kinds of tech support. >> >> What could be different about the Windows systems in Shanghai--at least two >> different people report the same issue? > > Well the first thing is to reflect on the fact that, rather like the 2 Koreas > there are 2 Chinas: The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China > (a.k.a. Taiwan), and they have no great love for one another. Now they have > both developed their own ways of representing Chinese on computers . . . > > Mainland China uses the Guobiao encoding system (1,2 or 4 byte). > > Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau use Big5 (1 or 2 byte) > > There is also the Unicode method . . . > and here's a groovy phrase I found trawling around on the Merry Internet: > "The conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese is usually > problematic" . . . Hey Nonny Nonny Nonny Nooooooooooo. > > Now I don't what version of Windows all these Chinese speaking people might > be using, but Windows has > a history of multiple encoding strategies that is like a minefield. > > Sorry to be such a damp squish. > > Richmond. > > P.S. You will probably be best going for Unicode encoding as this seems to > work (on the whole) on any version > of Windows from XP onwards. > >> These people are grad music students, not computer nerds, so I don't have >> much to go on. I had them install the Georgia and Helvetica fonts, which are >> all we use, and probably what they had to begin with. >> >> I also had to strip out all those characters in the version I finally sent >> them to translate so they could work. We want to sell the program there >> eventually--there's a large market there for Western music education, so >> this worries me. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Peter Bogdanoff >> UCLA >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
