Have followed Emmanuel. M. Decarie's Simplified Chinese (GB2312) in Manila with great interest. I've been looking for a way to run a manila site in japanese for some time.

Please excuse my rather non technical writing, I am not at all familiar with frontier scripting or programming in general, nor the differing flavours of ascii

Following Emmanuel's example http://community.scriptmeridian.org/discussionThread$msgNum=16120
replaced his <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> with <META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS"> I chose Shift_JIS as it gave the most reliable results when I tried to get radio and japanese working earlier today.

Have found that news, discussion, shortcuts and stories survive editing in japanese / manila as do changes in the prefs and the few macros i tried, printfriendlypage includemessage. The exception is the <navigator> which returns garbled text. Did not test membership.

Other places where the japanese is returned as a garbled mess are the email notifications of changes and using plugins, tested on Filer and Metadata both return frontier webpage mainresponder.respond errors.

The japanese text stored in the gdb looks the same unreadable rubbish, whether its a glossary item, discussion message or stored in plugins.data The difference is that the text in plugins.data returns the mainresponder.respond error page.

Tested on OSX 8.0b48 desktop, and my "live site" http://nihongo.nelson.co.nz/ is on OS9 and 7.01

Also tried out with radio http://radio.weblogs.com/0100090/ But not much joy, Its odd that manila works but radio does not, I had assumed that both were now in sync with each other.

I am ecstatic ! that I can run a basic manila site in japanese, thanks to both Emmanuel, Jonathan and the others for believing that its not impossible and showing the way :) I wouldn't have tried otherwise.

I would be happy to help anyone in a non programming way to progress this.

PS David if you read this, sorry, got all excited over japanese/manila. So shop docs are another day behind. The blackberry jungle manages to live another week:)

Best regards

Daniel Springett
Nelson
New Zealand

www.nelson.co.nz
Community - business

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