Hello there,
I have a macbook pro. When I go on some Japanese websites, there're full of weird characters sometimes appears. It doesn't happen everytime. How can I fix it? I appreciate your time in advance.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Please provide an example of a url where that happens so someone can see what you are talking about.
Normally this indicates an encoding mismatch. The fix would be to use View > Text Encoding to switch to UTF-8 or one of the various Japanese encodings until you fine the right one.
When a website causes this problem, it usually means that the people who created it were incompetant.
I really appreciate your time, Tom.
Here's one of example of the site http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~zennsaku/syasinn.htm for you to see what I meant.
Meanwhile, I will try your suggestion and let you know how it goes.
Yay! Your answer fixed my problem. Thank you so much for your advice.
bonybunny wrote:
Here's one of example of the site http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~zennsaku/syasinn.htm for you to see what I meant.
In that case the author used obsolete software from the 1990's to create the site and omitted the required code to tell the browser to use Shift-JIS encoding.
Yes, that's it. Thank you again.
I accidentaly clicked on my "This solved my question" instead of yours. Do you know how to re-done and give you 10 points you deserve?
weird characters sometimes appears on Japanese website
