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 "&#x80d6;" 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
> > "&#x80d6;" explicitly.
> >
> > Sure, I could just blame JRoller ;-)  Instead I pointed feedvalidator.org at
> > my RSS feed and validated it - they flagged the "&amp;#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?
> >
> > ??!
>

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