You could try a less customized version of Roller on my site. http://raibledesigns.com/page/test
Username: test Password: roller Hope this helps, Matt On 4/20/06, Bill Tribley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sean, > It sounds like the jroller blog viewer is not properly set up to handle true > utf-8 encoding. When you put the character into HTML then you are causing it > to pass through jroller, your browser is picking up on the utf-8, recognizing > Chinese and displaying it, as long as all the characters make it. > Bill > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:11:26 -0400, Sean Montgomery wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I use Safari under OS X 10.4.6 to access my Roller blog at www.jroller.com > > using, well, whatever version of Roller they're using today ;-) > > > > I'd like to be able to use Unicode characters in the titles of my blog > > entries. If I use OS X's built in Chinese input method editor to enter a > > Chinese character in an entry title via the Edit Entry screen I'll see the > > correct character show up in the entry listing (to the right of the Edit > > Entry screen under Recent Entries) but all I get is a '?' when I view the > > blog. > > > > If I try entering an HTML entity like "胖" into the title then I see > > those seven characters under Recent Entries, but I do see the correct single > > (Chinese) character when I view the blog. The correct character also shows > > up in the RSS feed when viewed via Safari. The trouble comes when I try to > > view the new entry via the front page of the JRoller website - it displays > > "胖" explicitly. > > > > Sure, I could just blame JRoller ;-) Instead I pointed feedvalidator.org at > > my RSS feed and validated it - they flagged the "&#x80d6;" and gave a > > warning that the title should not contain HTML and that I shouldn't be > > surprised if some viewers strip the characters or leave them there - like I > > saw at JRoller. > > > > I've seen Roller blogs that contain entries with titles containing explicit > > Unicode characters - I've check out their RSS source (using Safari's > > View:View Source command). Their RSS feed source, like mine, contains > > charset="UTF-8", so that makes sense. > > > > So what am I doing wrong? It looks like there's no way for me to input > > Unicode via the Chinese input method using the existing web- based Roller > > interface that JRoller has configured. Is it a configuration issue? Or do I > > need to use an alternative method of posting entries that uses the Blogger > > or > > MetaWeblog APIs? > > > > I didn't find anything useful on the Roller user guides and wiki about > > this... Any suggestions on where to turn? > > > > ??! >
