japanese encoding issue, keeps reverting to turkish (windows)

Question

I have some php files which the text is outputting (in dreamweaver) as stuff like...

“–“ú‚Í‚±‚¿‚ç‚̃[ƒ‹‚ğˆóü‚µ‚Äó•t‚É‚Ä‚²’ñ¦‚­‚¾‚³‚¢B

It is supposed to be Japanese text, if I change the encoding in dreamweaver to swift-JIS, the text look like:

ƒxƒ‹ƒRƒ~ƒ…ƒjƒP[ƒVƒ‡ƒ“ƒYƒŠƒ~ƒeƒbƒh

So i open the file in notepad ++ and character set to Japanese (swift-jis) and paste it back in to dreamweaver and then change the encoding and everything looks great.. I save, reopen and boom, back to turkish and the weird encoding. Any ideas?

On the actual website it looks OK, its just i want to be able to edit it in dream weaver and obviously come back to it in a later date and still be able to read it.

Answer 1

if anyone is still interested: I found this answer smwhere on the web and it worked for me: to explicitly say DW what encoding to use, manually place this line in the beginning of your page:

where xxxxxxx should be replaced with correct name for your encoding (see modify-page props.-document encoding for that).

Hope that helps. Peter-ta

Answer 2

You will need to explicitly tell Dreamweaver to open the file in Swift-JIS.

Here is a tutorial that seems to explain how. Maybe there also is a select box in the "Open" Dialog.