Hi I'm a native Chinese who's been reading this forum with interest. But some of the Chinese characters shown in the exchanges are not decoded correctly on my computer. Don't know if this could happen on other PCs but my point is a reader who has no knowledge in written Chinese but wants to know the Chinese characters for an expression might get the characters completely wrong. Is there a way to fix this?
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decoding
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Dylan Sung
Re: decoding
Sometimes, when I post a chinese character on phorum, it sometimes ends up in a wrong encoding. This is probably because I didn't set the encoding before I posted.
If you want to get the right encoding, try installing all the Chinese simplified and traditional IME's, plus the ones for Japanese and Korean, since on the odd occasion, if you wrote in Chinese originally, it mysteriously changes to one of the other non-Chinese encodings.
In the end, you just have to switch to one of these other encodings to make sense of the encodings.
For users of WinXP, it should be pre-installed on your machine, and all you need to do is activate these IME's. Click on the desktop of your computer, then press F1 and then you type "IME" and it should come up with
"Add another keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME)"
just follow the instructions to add new languages. In IE, remember to change the language settings for both of the following.
Tools > Internet Options > Language
Tools > Internet Options > Font
If you want to get the right encoding, try installing all the Chinese simplified and traditional IME's, plus the ones for Japanese and Korean, since on the odd occasion, if you wrote in Chinese originally, it mysteriously changes to one of the other non-Chinese encodings.
In the end, you just have to switch to one of these other encodings to make sense of the encodings.
For users of WinXP, it should be pre-installed on your machine, and all you need to do is activate these IME's. Click on the desktop of your computer, then press F1 and then you type "IME" and it should come up with
"Add another keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME)"
just follow the instructions to add new languages. In IE, remember to change the language settings for both of the following.
Tools > Internet Options > Language
Tools > Internet Options > Font