Hi Sean, I think I just pasted the text straight into the Roller entry screen.
It seems to me I did a post with some Russian, German and Tibetan by simply cutting and pasting from a translation site on the web. I have no ideal how the Chinese text was entered, I only know that several blogs or the past few years have been in Chinese. The only problematic one I have seen is a Norwegian site (I think it is Norwegian anyway) where I have to select a different character set in my browser to get proper text. But, I think I have read somewhere that Norwegian presents problems for Unicode. Hope this helps. I am on my way back out the door now, but I will try a Chinese entry later if I can grab the time. Brian On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 09:56 -0400, Sean Montgomery wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for the info. I took a look at the example you gave and ran > its RSS feed through a validator and it seemed pretty happy. :-) > > I'm currently entering my blog titles and entries via the JRoller web > interface. I've tried the various input editors (the ones that work > with Safari on OS X) and the only way I can enter Chinese characters > is via HTML entity escapes. How do you avoid doing that, and manage > to get the Unicode directly into the entries, etc? > > Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, I'm a rank beginner. > > Thanks again, > > Sean > > On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Brian Blakeley wrote: > > > > > How about trying your blog with us over at CheBlogs.com/ > > > > I think we have the unicode features of roller tuned very well. > > > > Here is an example to consider: > > > > http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/xglhc > > > > Although, this seems like a plug, I am really interested in your > > feedback, because one of the critical goals for our site is that it be > > internationally friendly. Roller is a tremendous help is this goal in > > my view. > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 23:11 -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 > >> "胖" 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? > >> > >> 谢谢! > > >
