Japanese form fields not displayed properly

walrus · Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 5

Hi all. I have used a PHP form processor and it works great except now I have just used the script for a japanese site and the form submissions are illegible. I have done some research but can't find out exactly what I need to change to maintain the japanese formatting. Is it the enctype or is it something in the php script that needs to be altered. At present I only have changed the initial form values to <form action="form.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name=form onSubmit="return check()" >. I think something has to be added to display Japanese text. Could someone please explain how to get this form to display properly or point me in the direction of a good tutorial that will help me. I really have no idea about php or the enctype properties. Many thanks in advance. The form is submitting The fields typed in English correctly but won't display the fields filled in with Japanese characters. Any help much appreciated.

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 406 Location: Nova Scotia

Sorry, I didn't see this post earlier?

Have a look through this page and see if your solution is there -

http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/language.htm

walrus · Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 5

Thanks MJPLIV. I'm not sure whether its fixed yet as looks like it might be an ISP problem by not having MBSTRING enabled on their PHP version and they are presently upgrading. I really appreciate your response. Cheers.
Lance.

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 406 Location: Nova Scotia

Let us know how it turned out

walrus · Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 5

OK, I just discovered that you have to open the email in Outlook rather than just preview it to view Japanese characters. You then go to VIEW -> ENCODING -> then select the appropriate language pack. DOH.