japanese

Print japanese with jQuery

Hi I'm trying to print some Japanese to a page dynamically using jQuery, and it display nothing recognizable. I don't know what went wrong, I reduced the code to the most straight-forward, and it doesn't fix it. Or maybe it's just me being thick. I use: $('body').append('<p>日本語</p>'); Which should work, right? And I get: 日本語...

iPhone, Japanese script

Can the iPhone default system font display Japanese script? I have an iPhone which compiles correctly and then localizes and displays correctly in the simulator (English, Japanese and Thai!). It runs fine in English and Thai on my iTouch but hangs when I change the language setting to Japanese. I can display Japanese script correctly wh...

Does froyo support AKASATANA and Yomigana based contact sorting?

Can anyone tell me about the Japanese phonebook sorting status in Android contacts? Does froyo support AKASATANA and Yomigana? ...

Cocoa/Objective C: Convert numbers to strings using Japanese unicode characters

Converting numbers to strings is no problem, but the string created uses ascii numbers. I am inserting the number in a Japanese sentence. The character itself is correct, say 3, for example, but the width and positioning should be a little different when typing in Japanese. As a result the number looks cramped up against the following ch...

PHP: have GD able to print Japanese words

In a PHP module, We have a few graphics made by GD that need to have some Japanese words in it. These words are entered manually from a form by Japanese users, and that text should be displayed within the graphics. PHP has the mbstring module and can display and handle Japanese words via echo with no problem. However gd displays ??? in...

PHP-gd text display in Japanese is weird

Finally I had to recompile PHP with --enable-gd-jis-conv. However the text display is wrong, in Japanese. $text = '夏の天気'; $fontfile = '/usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/sazanami-mincho.ttf'; return imagettftext ($image, $size, $angle, $x, $y, $color, $fontfile, $text); But different kanji (Japanese characters) are displayed inst...

excel with Japanese(wide) fonts

I was working on parsing an excel file having japanese files in some of the cells. By using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (Ver. 0.15) (which I know is older than current version) some of the cells with below characters <設定B-1コース> are appearing as in print Dumper $oWkc->{_Value}; $VAR1 = "\x{ff1c}\x{8a2d}\x{5b9a}B-\x{ff11}\x{30b3}\x{...

Asian characters in JFreeChart get rendered as squares in IE 8 but not in Firefox

I'm generating a chart that contains Asian characters. The characters render fine in Firefox, but not in IE 8. If I debug in Eclipse, I can see that the characters are fine in both cases before getting rendered, so they're not getting screwed up before the server or by the server. The Content-Type of the server response header is the fol...

problem with japanese character encoding in wordpress

I have a wordpress installation in english but all of the content is in Japanese. I have set the charset to utf-8 in the head section of the page and all the characters display fine. However if I use the wordpress search widget to search for something in japanese, all of the characters get encoded into some wierd encoding that looks like...

HTML Forms - removing slashes safely

I'm using a web form to store user input into a MySQL DB, using $_POST. I have noticed that once textarea fields area read, slashes are inserted automatically to escape some characters. As I need to manipulate text before storing, I thought about using stripslashes, however I have discovered that it may garbage text, if Japanese or oth...

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 ...

How to read Asiatic characters (Japanese, Chinese) after json_encode in PHP

I've read every post about the topic but I don't think I've found a reply to my question, that's driving me crazy. I got a couple of php files, one stores data into mySQL db, another one read those data: I get data from all over the world and it seems that I succeed to store asiatic character in a right way, but when I try to read those...

Is there something better than the kakasi library for gojûon collation?

"Better" primarily means accuracy, but I am also interested any other criteria in which other systems excel. I sampled the Perl binding Text::Kakasi for correctness in an admitted limited fashion and it works just fine for our needs. use utf8; use Encode; use Text::Kakasi; use Unicode::Collate; my $k = Text::Kakasi->new(qw(-iutf8 -outf...

Language converter in C++ (from japanese to english)

Hi All, Once again i need ur help, i have a file in japanese language and i want to convert that file into english using C++, since i dont think that i can use any API's of google in c++, so any general idea can prove helpful for me, Please suggest something. Thanks a lot Owais Masood ...

3rd party tool that can generate a list related articles for a japanese-language site

Hi, I run a site with a large number of news articles. I'm looking for a 3rd party tool(or widget) that, when placed on an article page, would generate a list of related articles within the same site. So my requirements are: Returns a list of links to related articles Has to be integrated front-end (javascript,ajax,etc) Has to sustai...

problem passing Japanese characters(UTF-8) via json_encode

Having problems returning a list of Japanese terms from an MSSql database as JSON. If I return them as a bunch of list items all is ok, but I can not seem to get json encode to work for me. Any pointers much appreciated. $prefs = array(); while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result)) { $prefs[] = mb_convert_encoding($row["Pref"] , "UTF-8", ...