Problems displaying Hanzi

[boomerang]

I can enter characters, view characters in explorer, and view most Chinese pages in Firefox. However, I occasionally run into pages where I expect to see Chinese, but see something more like this:

ÎÒÊÕµ½ÄãµÄÐÅÏ¢ÁË£¬ÏëÄã

Now, as I said, most sites work with no problem - it is the occasional site that does this. I wouldn't mind because I don't go to sites entirely in Chinese very often, and the resource sites all work well, but this above was from an email I got. I'd like to see emails from Chinese friends! I have checked nearly every firefox setting (Language settings, Font settings, Character encoding)

Anyone else ever had this happen?

Cheers,

Kevin

[889]

You'll best get help with a question like this if you provide a link to a site that produces the problem,

[roddy]

Bizarrely enough, that text doesn't display for me in Firefox or IE on my desktop, yet does on my PDA. It says '我收到了你的信息，想你‘, by the way.

[889]

That's interesting, since even the corrupted e-mail fixer at http://www.mandarintools.com/email.html can't read this.

[adrianlondon]

I get

脦脪脢脮碌陆脛茫碌脛脨脜脧垄脕脣拢卢脧毛脛茫

if I manually change the encoding away from UTF-8 in IE7.

[chinesetools]

I've made a small change to http://www.mandarintools.com/email.html that fixes the problem for me. Be sure to reload the page before trying again. The encoding of the unreadable text is GB.

Also, an off-line version of the e-mail fixer is now available as part of the latest release of DimSum Chinese Tools

[boomerang]

I can't think of any specific sites at the moment. The trouble you guys had with it suggests it might be a deeper issue. I'll poke around some more and see what I can find.

And roddy, thanks for the help there :mrgreen:

[889]

I tried several times with Firefox and still couldn't get the e-mail tool to read the text, then switched to IE and it worked right away.