Japanese Characters Garbled in Website

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Hello.
I am trying to build a web page with Japanese characters.
I know the HTML is accurate.

I do not speak Japanese.

However, when I post it to my web page I just get garbled characters. (square boxes.) can you please help me?
Do I need to put a language file on my website?
I am using Hostgator for my website.

Is there an easy fix for this?

Here is the web page:
Home (Japanese)

thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    I have tried several different editors with no luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aronya
    Looks OK to me (not that I can read it).
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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    Thanks. Not that I know what I'm doing, but, I put a <php> tag at the start of the web page and a </php> tag at the end.

    It's not pretty but it seemed to work.
    thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author CMartin
    Originally Posted by pizzatherapy View Post

    Hello.
    I am trying to build a web page with Japanese characters.
    I know the HTML is accurate.

    I do not speak Japanese.

    However, when I post it to my web page I just get garbled characters. (square boxes.) can you please help me?
    Do I need to put a language file on my website?
    I am using Hostgator for my website.

    Is there an easy fix for this?

    Here is the web page:
    Home (Japanese)

    thanks,
    Go to Google Japan http://www.google.co.jp and if you only see those "square boxes" then your system seems to not have installed the files to support East Asian languages.

    On Windows XP, to install those files you must go to "Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages" and in the "Supplemental language support" you must check the box "Install files for East Asian languages" and then click the "OK" or "Apply" button.

    Note that this might need the original Win XP CD and it requires about 230 MB of disk space.

    More info at Microsoft:
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/h...tlsupp.mspx#E4

    If you have other Windows version, check this page at Wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mu...t_(East_Asian)

    HTH
    Carlos

    P.S. I see your page with the correct characters... but I have installed the files to support East Asian languages
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