Japanese Fonts/Character Encodings

[Kuzzy]

Hey all,

I was wondering if perhaps one of you has had this problem or might know a solution. I am updating a blog site (Xanga) with a mix of Japanese and English. I have all of the language packs installed on my computer. After the first entry, everything was fine - it showed up correctly as Japanese. After subsequent entries, however, it is choosing to encode the characters as Simplified Chinese, and apparently as just garbage on computers without the Simplified Chinese fonts. Now, I can't change the HTML header to specify a specific character set, so does anybody have any idea of what might have caused it to change?

Thanks in advance!

[tona]

The problem is probably going to be encoding, not fonts.
Are you using Firefox or IE?
In IE, I believe if you right click on the page, you can get a choice of character encodings to force... It's probably Shift_JIS. Could be EUC_JP.
In Firefox it's View > Character Encodings (Then if it's not listed, go to More Encodings, East Asian, and find SHIFT_JIS)

[Kuzzy]

Yeah, it's fine if I switch the encoding to Shift_JIS. I was just wondering if anyone might know why it started choosing Simplified Chinese over Shift_JIS, since I can't actually set the charset preference in the HTML. Thanks for the reply, though!