[ILUG-Webdev] Re: Japanese input [SOLVED]

Sun Dec 7 15:36:25 GMT 2003

kverens wrote:

> kverens writes:
> 
>> Any ideas on simple methods to get this working??
> 
> 
> turns out, it's not enough to specify the charset in the <head> section; 
> you must also specify it in the server's headers. I did a little victory 
> dance around the office after figuring that one out.
> Kae

Sorry I missed this. I'm out of work and without regular internet access 
ATM. I had a similar problem to yours a few montsh ago. Fixed it by 
adding the following:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">

which is in essence a client-side hack for setting the server headers ...