Location names and Unicode characters

[Savanik]

I have a Russian character who renamed his town to Наылорион. (Nnaillorion in Cyrillic.) In the list of my characters, however, his location is listed as '沃誾鉋蓆?'.

That a bug? Or did he suddenly become Japanese?

Sav

EDIT: Additional info - it's fine everywhere else, listed in the Cyrillic characters, it's just on the character page that it's listed in the asian characters. (I think they're Japanese.)

[Nick]

Make sure your encoding on that page is set to Cryllic.

edit: for instance, when someone was talking in Russian to my english character, I had no idea that they were speaking Russian; all of their characters were appearing as accented french vowels, to me.

[Savanik]

I have no idea how to do that.

I'm using Mozilla and tried to look up help on how to set a specific page to a certain language, but what I got was:

When you create new web pages, FrontPage determines the encoding and language of new pages from your keyboard's language setting... The following HTML tag specifies a page's encoding:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

I can't put META tags into the page myself, so...? What should I do?


Sav

[kabl00ey]

In Internet Explorer, if I remember correctly, it's View | Encoding, but I use Opera, so I don't know it in Mozilla. In Opera I think it's Tools | Preferences | Language.

[Augery]

Tools| Options| General in firefox

[Sho]

In Mozilla, Edit/Preferences, then Navigator/Languages.

[Savanik]

Right, so in Firefox, Tools -> Options -> General...

I'm assuming I hit the 'languages' button at this point, where I see the following screen:

Languages and Character Encoding

Languages
Web pages are sometimes offered in more than one language. Choose languages for displaying these web pages, in order of preference.

Languages in order of preference:
English/United States [en-us]
English [en]
Russian [ru]

Select a language to add....

Character Encoding:

Default Character Encoding: Western (Windows-1252)

So. What should I do so that one particular page displays in Russian?

Sav

[Nick]

It's the character encoding bit, Sav, not the languages bit.
It's not Cantr sending your computer the wrong language symbols, it's your computer interpreting them the wrong way, due to the encoding.

[Savanik]

It's the character encoding bit, Sav, not the languages bit.
It's not Cantr sending your computer the wrong language symbols, it's your computer interpreting them the wrong way, due to the encoding.

Okay, but: What should I do so that one particular page displays in Russian properly? Every other Russian page in Cantr other than that one has Russian characters that display just fine.

I've tried changing the character encoding to Western, Central European, Unicode (both big-endian and little-endian)... but it's not changing anything.

Sav

[Chris Johnson]

Currently the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
is set for all characters who are playing in Russian which is why unicode characters look ok on all character pages . But the Player page is displayed in the Players master language which I'm guessing is English , so no charset is loaded . (or more to the point the default ones are used) .

Can you just try setting your player language to Russian as a test, just to confirm that the Player Page now correctly displays the Cyrillic Chars ? (ignore the fact that some of the command buttons now change to Russian)

If that is the case then we may need to include an account option for any player playing Chars in Russian to have this charset loaded for the player page ... Everything else will still be in English (or default language) but Cyrillic characters will be displayed

Short term this should pose no major problem, I believe it is only the Russian language group which require a special Charset ... that may change when the Thai, Japanese and Korean areas come on board

[Savanik]

Ah... ah ha. Once I click through with my Russian character, the place's name shows up just fine in the Cyrillic characters.

I don't know of any other way to change my 'player language'. But that seems to work just fine. Now if there were only a way to set that as default.

Sav

[Nick]

There's a big ol' CHANGE button right on the player page, Sav.

[Savanik]

Ooooh, so that's what that button does...

I didn't see language on the main screen list, so I figured that button was irrelevent. 'k!

Sav