IE 9 and Chinese Characters

Recently upgraded to version 3.0.

When client enters Chinese characters in editor (and other fields) and saves the page using IE 9, submitting the form (saves to MySQL db) saves garbage text for all fields.

Works fine on Mac FF and Windows FF (what we've tested so far), but IE 9 breaks it. Everything appears correct in the editor until the record is saved and viewed again.

Is the some issue with CK Editor, IE9 and Chinese characters?

Thanks

Brett

I just test in IE 8 and had the same issue.

in your page, you should have a meta tag to set the character set used by the browser, ussually for chinese you would us the big5 character set:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Big5" />

you may also need to edit your database connection to use the Chinese character set. in the connection file, find the following line:

$connectionName = mysql_pconnect($hostname_connectionName, $username_connectionName, $password_connectionName) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);

where connectionName is the name of the connection, and change it to:

$connectionName = mysql_pconnect($hostname_connectionName, $username_connectionName, $password_connectionName) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);

mysql_set_charset('big5',$connectionName);

Jason,

Thanks for the quick response.

We've always used UTF-8 and didn't have an issue until we updated from the previous version of HTML Editor (version using FCK Editor). Is this Big5 something specific to CK Editor and IE?

Brett

no, it is specific to the chinese character set.

the utf-8 character set does not contain all of the characters in the chinese language.

Any ideas why we're now getting these errors and why we only see them with IE. Your solution suggests we should be having a problem regardless of the browser.

Thanks

Brett

yes, you should be having this problem in all browsers, character set is not specific to the browser, it's specific to the page.


I just tried testing this using HTML Editor 3 and cannot reproduce the problem using IE 9. I will have to look into this problem with you further to determine the cause.

Jason, I have the same issue with a bilangual website: English and Chinese. I looked at your solution, but I use one database for both English and Chinese. How can I solve this?

If you set your charset encoding to utf-8 it will work with both english and chinese. The fact that it comes from a database won't matter.

Ok, thanks Ray