Character Encoding
  • fersurehayleyfersurehayley April 2009

    Ah! I have been trying to translate a few words, but every time I do, the japanese letters are numbers and letters in tiny boxes. I figured that the encoding on the page wasn't in the right setting?
    What encoding do I need?

  • TobberothTobberoth April 2009

    Not really understanding your problem. Are you copying the characters from some other site or program and pasting them into this site? Are you writing them with your keyboard? What browser are you using?

    In general, if you copy a kanji from one page it should work when pasted into this one (there used to be a problem though but Kim fixed it).

  • KimKim April 2009

    I am not sure I understand your problem either. But just for reference, jisho.org uses UTF-8 as the character encoding. Also make sure that you have Japanese language support installed if you are on Windows.

  • asmodaiasmodai April 2009

    Ahhh, I think I know what this person means.

    It sounds like replacement characters where you see the hexadecimal code of the codepoint inside a box. Sounds like this person is using a Unix/Linux system and does not have the appropriate fonts installed.

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