IE: Unicode characters in HTML tags and option tags

Question

I need show options in select with unicode characters. Try the following:

<select id="ddlNota_CateId"> <option value="1091">&#26641;&#31435;&#20351;&#29992;ICT&#30340;</option> </select> 

And show unrecognized characters (树立 使用 ICT 的) .: S

Example at http://200.115.217.50/test.html

Answer 1

For IE, you need to explicitly specify fonts in CSS that have these characters. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find out which fonts you have, so you need to add a list of popular ones. For instance:

 body { font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Code2000, sans-serif; //etc. } 

Answer 2

A numeric symbolic link in HTML always uses Unicode characters. For example, the first character # 26641 refers to U + 2611 , which is the Chinese character 树.

The characters you put in the question look right. This is almost certainly a problem with the browser, font, or operating system. For example, if you see squares instead of characters, the browser does not have a suitable font. Some browsers automatically select the font that you need, but you may need to explicitly specify the font family in others.

Try Help: multilingualism support (East Asia) on Wikipedia.

Answer 3

Make sure you have the Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 and / or <meta charset="utf-8"> if you directly enter japanese / chinese / unicode characters in (not html entities).

This works: http://jsfiddle.net/nP87F/1/

HTML objects should work independently . Are you sure that not only your text editor or OS does not support this language?

If you use Windows, this may be useful:

• http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/int_pr_install_languages.mspx?mfr=true
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese_(Mandarin)/Displaying_Chinese_Characters

Answer 4

Remove the font setting in the style declaration. You tell the browser to use a special font that clearly does not support the characters you need.

Answer 5

Two problems that I see:

• The font name should be “Arial Unicode MS”, exactly the same, or the exact name of another suitable font.

• Your web server (IIS) does not serve as UTF-8 for this. I get the following:

  $ curl --head http://200.115.217.50/test.html
  HTTP / 1.1 200 OK
  Content Length: 874
  Content-Type: text / html
  Last modified: Wed, Aug 11 2010 15:56:14 GMT
  Accept-Ranges: Byte
  ETag: "6ae315ba6d39cb1: 1d22"
  Server: Microsoft-IIS / 6.0
  X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
  Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:11:48 GMT

  It should be Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

ALSO, next time, clearly indicate your code and URL in the main question for everyone to see - you send people to wild games with guessing otherwise.