chinese-characters

Setting up font fallback in winforms in code

I have a C# Winforms application that does some image and text manipulation. Basically, it draws some images and puts text on them. What I would like to do is render English characters in Arial and East Asian language characters in an appropriate character font. The default Winforms font substitution almost handles this correctly. Engl...

how to download Big5 webpage using RCurl in R?

I am trying to use RCurl to download a webpage encoding in Big5, but the encoding is not right. I have been toying with the "encoding" parameters for a while but no use, any suggestions? Thanks. ...

Problem with chinese characters, php and MySQL

Hallo all, I have a MySQL database with the following settings: MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) MySQL connection collation: utf8_unicode_ci i have a table with a column named "softtitle", this column is coded in utf8_general_ci. The entries of this column contain chinese characters. If i run SQL through the phpMyAdmin Control pane, ...

What does .net source (C#, VB.net) look like in other (non-english) languages?

As the title says, I am just a little curious...I have seen some European open-source projects post the source, but it was all syntactically identical. What about Chinese or Japanese or other more complex character-based languages? UPDATE: This was a little misleading I guess. I was asking about the "traditional" .Net languages like...

Escape Double-Byte Characters for RTF

Hi. I am trying to escape double-byte (usually Japanese or Chinese) characters from a string so that they can be included in an RTF file. Thanks to poster falconcreek, I can successfully escape special characters (e.g. umlaut, accent, tilde) that are single-byte. - (NSString *)stringFormattedRTF:(NSString *)inputString { NSMutableString...

How can I make Chinese characters show in IE8 without forcing compatibility mode?

All the solutions for this issue say to use <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />, which works because it forces the browser to render in compatibility view (i.e. as if it were IE7), but then the characters don't display when the user is actually using IE7 (or a number of other browsers). Instead, I see squares. ...

Encoding error in Python with Chinese characters

I'm a beginner having trouble decoding several dozen CSV file with numbers + (Simplified) Chinese characters to UTF-8 in Python 2.7. I do not know the encoding of the input files so I have tried all the possible encodings I am aware of -- GB18030, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16 & UTF-32 (LE & BE). Also, for good measure, GBK and GB3212, though th...

How do you sort CJK (Asian) characters in Perl, or with any other programming language?

How do you sort Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters in Perl? As far as I can tell, sorting CJK characters by stroke count, then by radical, seems to be the way these languages are sorted. There are also some methods that sort by sounds, but this seems less common. I've tried using: perl -e 'print join(" ", sort qw(工 然 一 人 三 ...

Cannot Display Chinese Character in my PHP code

I want to display my Twitter Info in my blog. So I write some code to get it. the issue I got is that Chinese characters displayed as unknown code. Here is the test code. Could anyone take a look and help? Thanks <html> <title>Twitter Test</title> <body> <?php function mystique_objectToArray($object){ if(!is_object...