Re: FN-FORUM: Displaying International Character Support

date posted 9th January 2004 20:59

You could try either big5 or hb2312 character sets instead. Most
Chinese stuff is big5 AFAIK...

Cheers

George

Richard Harfst wrote:
> I'm trying to display Chinese characters on ASP pages that are pulled
> directly from a SQL Server database. The field type in the SQL Server db
> table supports unicode (nvarchar). The collation of the database is
> SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI. I have added unicode support in the ASP with
> the meta tag:
>
>
>
> ... Needless to say none of this displays any unicode characters in the HTML
> as anything except squares. Even when viewed directly from SQL Server via
> Enterprise Manager and Query Analyser they appear as squares. I've checked
> with the author of the Chinese stuff who assures me that he can see every
> character perfectly.
>
> Any ideas anyone? - All help gratefully received :)
>
> Richard Harfst
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