Dreamweaver - Chinese Characters in DW

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Chinese Characters in DW

DPSwebmaster

2006-02-25, 6:15 pm

I have a friend who is creating some pages in Chinese and they can create the
characters o.k, (easy to change they keboard on a Mac) but when hey save in
DW, they just get ????? in place of the chinese characters. I believe the doc.
type needs to have different information as it is currently set to English. I
am just not sure what would need to be added and where. There is a message
about UTF-8 coding when you attempt to save.

Can anyone assist?

David Powers

2006-02-25, 10:14 pm

DPSwebmaster wrote:
> I have a friend who is creating some pages in Chinese and they can create the
> characters o.k, (easy to change they keboard on a Mac) but when hey save in
> DW, they just get ????? in place of the chinese characters. I believe the doc.
> type needs to have different information as it is currently set to English. I
> am just not sure what would need to be added and where. There is a message
> about UTF-8 coding when you attempt to save.

The DOCTYPE declaration *always* refers to English because it's the
language in which the doctype is written. It has nothing to do with the
encoding of the page.

Use Modify > Page Properties > Encoding to set the correct encoding. It
will be either Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), or UTF-8.

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David Powers
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