How to display chinese characters for IE.

baburman

I have to enable a web application for chinese characters, which is currently available in English. I just added the following header line in the <head> section:

and it is working fine in FF and Chrome but not in IE. IE displays boxes and extended aschii characters instead. Please help!

Thanks

DaveRandom

Try

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">

baburman

When i modified to this: <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=gb2312">

Chrome displays a mix of chinese(mostly) + boxes + ?

FF displays a mix of chinese(mostly) + ?
here in place of boxes chinese characters are shown correctly.

IE displays nothing at all.

I wonder what's going on. 😕

DaveRandom

With IE, you need to install language packs in order to display stuff right (although I'm surprised it's showing nothing at all, I'd have thought it would display incorrect characters).

You were obviously better with UTF-8 (since this worked before in FF and Chrome) but I'm guessing IE is not prompting you to install the language pack.

When I try and visit a Chinese site from my IE, I get a prompt (see attached image) which has an option to disable future prompts. I don't know how to undo this option (a quick Google has yielded no viable results) but I would guess this is the problem.

May be you could manually install the language pack?