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Brian Barthold
Brian Barthold

Reputation: 1623

IE 8 Chinese encoding characters

I am unable to render Chinese characters in IE 8. I have researched this and I am aware of the meta tag to force compatibility mode. I am also aware of the language pack you can install. Finally I have seen that Microsoft actually forces IE7 compatibility mode on their Chinese website. http://www.microsoft.com/zh/cn/default.aspx

I am wondering if anyone has any alternatives solutions to this problem. None them seem that appealing to me. I am using utf8 as my encoding and this problem only occurs in IE8.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1677

Answers (1)

Brian Barthold
Brian Barthold

Reputation: 1623

I found something that appears to work. After reading this question ( How can I make Chinese characters show in IE8 without forcing compatibility mode? ) I ended up using the style below. The style uses a backup font of Arial, Arial Unicode MS.

To call this you SHOULD use IE conditionals for only IE8. Be aware this may have some issues in browsers other than IE8. See http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=3c8cf2891a0bcfe5&hl=en

Also please note Arial MS unicode is installed on Vista and XP and is also bundled with OS X 10.5 and later. It does not ship with Windows 7 but is distributed with Microsoft Office. For more info see: http://emailmarketingvoodoo.com/blog/post/arial-unicode-ms-your-safest-bet-for-consistent-foreign-language-display/

So here is the code:


body {
    font-family:Arial,Arial Unicode MS;
}

With this you can avoid the need to call the ugly meta tag to force IE8 into compatibility mode.

Upvotes: 1

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