I saw your blog a little while ago Sean and thought things were looking go for you. Thanks for the confirmation!
How did you enter the Chinese characters? Using the software you mentioned or cut and paste? Would be glad to have you take up residence at cheblogs.com if that meets your needs. Brian On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:19 -0400, Sean Montgomery wrote: > I just created a blog and posted a quick entry on your site, Brian. > I entered Chinese characters in the blog title, blog subtitle, blog > entry title and the blog entry proper. Everything showed up exactly > as I typed it, no question marks: > > http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/pangmao > > The RSS feed looked fine and validated successfully at http:// > feedvalidator.org/ and everything looked fine on the Recent Weblog > Entries page. Very nice! > > Pity about JRoller, though. According the the JRoller blog at http:// > www.jroller.com/page/jroller they've got a JIRA at http:// > jira.javalobby.org, but there's nothing at that URL, so I guess I > won't be reporting this issue... > > On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Brian Blakeley wrote: > > > Sorry for the delay Sean. > > > > I was out of town. The site is public and free (not for gambling, > > porno, or hate sites of course) - so just register for an account and > > you are there! > > > > > > Brian > > > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:40 -0400, Sean Montgomery wrote: > >> Hello again Brian, > >> > >> My apologies for the duplicate responses earlier today - my mail > >> server hiccuped. > >> > >> Do you have a test login for your site that I could try? > >> > >> I'm beginning to wonder if my problems are due to OS X and/or > >> Safari. I'd be curious to see what OS's and browsers people are > >> using to enter Chinese and other glyphs that take two or more bytes > >> to encode in UTF-8. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> 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! > >>> > >> > > >
