Hi!
First off, thanks for a great piece of free software - The more I play with the board, the more I see how flexilble and well designed it is... Best board I've played with so far certainly!
But...
No matter how hard I try, I can't get the Chinese language pack to work the way I want it to. I can get my board to use either English UK encoding, or Chinese (simplified) encoding as defined in the user profile.
I'm having a problem because we are not native Chinese speakers, and want to use the English template - but be able to use Chinese characters within the posts.
What's happening, is that I'm posting in Chinese successfully, but users with the English profile see gibberish - even when using Chinese enabled browsers
From the other posts on this forum, I can see that this is because the HTML standard only allows a page to use one encoding method at a time. Now, what I need to know is:
- If I set the templates to use ONLY the Chinese encoding ... what will happen to non-Chinese enabled browers... will they be able to view the English text as normal?
- If I set the encoding to unicode; are there any unpleasant side effects... again, to non-enabled browsers? ... Why not use unicode from the outset?
Thanks in advance for any help - I'm new to this encoding malarky