Do you have to adjust your encoding each time you click in this subforum?

[nekocat]

Is it only me who has to change encoding to Shift-JIS or Japanese Auto Detect each time I click in this forum (Learning Japanese) in order to read the messages without garbled letters? I'm using IE or FireFox. Is there any way I can make my PC do auto-detect?
Or can't we help, since it's so written in HTML setting (charset=ISO?)?

Another question: Whatever thread I click on, the page's encoding is in Latin 9 (or ISO-8859-15, depending on PC). Japanese letters in some posts are garbled, others are not. This (http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32800)page, Tomii515's Japanese letters got garbled on default, but not Elizabeth's and nekocat's. Why?:(

[Buntaro]

Neko,

When you right-click on an IE webpage, a menu should appear with a choice of Encoding. Click on Encoding. A sub-menu should appear with the choice Auto-select. Does Auto-select have a checkmark next to it? If not, click on Auto-select. See if this solves your problem.

[nekocat]

I did as you wrote, it didn't work. Doesn't your PC show any garbled letters in Learning Japanese forum?

[Buntaro]

No, I have no garbled letters. What version of Windows and IE & IESP are you using?

[moscos]

i have a really good and effective solution to your little prob, follow this one:

go to>>control panel>>regional language option>>language tab>>check install east-asian language. click apply to continue, if it asks you for the CD of XP, put the CD and let it install. then restart.

also, so that you can see the KATAKAN/HIRAGAN/KANJI writings and characters on the webpages and forums that poeple type, follow this one too:

go to>>control panel>>regional language options>>advance tab>>SET language for non-unicode programs to: japanese, if it asks you the CD XP, put the CD and restart.

now your OS is fully equiped with asian characters and letters after restart.
dont worry about the WINDOW's interfaces, your windows will be always in ENGLISH characters, only the your OS will now be aware of asian languages.

dont forget to add this up:

go to>>control panel>>reginal language options>>language tab>>click DETAILS button>>go to installed services>>click ADD>>select japanese IME then APPLY.

after that you will notice a 2 letter on your right system tray with "EN" - means english, now if you want to type japanese just click that "EN" and change to "JP", then click again "JP" and select "show language bar", and change the letter "A" to あ or any of those settings, so that you can type hiragan and katakana along with kanji too.

[nekocat]

I'm afraid, moscos, you seem to have guessed wrong. My problem is not what ca n be solved by what you've written.

Could you check "Learning Japanese" forum to see if any letters got garbled?

[nekocat]

I found just now that Admin has changed the character setting to x-sjis.

"<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-sjis" />".

Thanks, admin!