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A client is asking if its possible to have a few pages on his site duplicating and translating into Chinese, he has the text already translated and I have duplicated the pages but when I paste the chinese in it just shows up as question marks.
I guess its something to do with the doctype which I currently have as:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en">

I have tried adding
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> to the head section and removing <html lang="en"> but this doesn't seem to work. I'm not an expert when it comes to this king of stuff so can this be easily done?

Thanks in advance.
 
oakleafg replied on at Permalink Reply
Tried a few things and it just won't work, works fine as a static html page but as soon as I try it in concrete I get question marks!!!

Here is what works fine when set up as a static html file...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>


I have done the exact same doctype and charset in my concrete header and added the <p lang="zh" xml:lang="zh" dir="ltr"> into my page but as soon as I hit update it changes all the characters to ?????

guess i'm missing something, just wondered if I need to set up <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> as a page attribute like the meta description etc but not sure how to go about this.
oakleafg replied on at Permalink Reply
Update...
I have done a work around for this which is a bit of a pain but it works (luckily he only wants 4 pages in chinese).
I have set up a separate page type for each page that needs to be in chinese and just hardcoded the translated text into the html.
This works fine but I would love to know why when its added in the content editor it becomes question marks when the update button is clicked.
Please let me know if anybody has a solution to this.

Cheers:-)
chesterkwan replied on at Permalink Reply
Please refer to the following link
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/internationalization/unic...