Hello,
I have a website which is works with Node JS and JSON.
I need to have a Chinese version of it, we can get Russian to work ok, but not Chinese… the charset is UTF-8.
Does anyone know why this wouldn’t be working? Its really puzzling a work mate and I, who are tasked with getting this done.
Many thanks for any advice.
Unfortunately “not working” doesn’t provide much of a clue about what could be wrong.
l know Chinese doesn’t have word breaks like most other languages have. But I have no idea if that is involved with your problem.
What error message(s) are you getting?
No actual error messages, but if you go to the address (staging.sxr.io) and select the Chinese flag if required (css not ideal yet), it will change to whats supposed to be Chinese, but it is all full of ? symbols etc.
The charset is set as UTF-8 in the HTML, i have no idea why it wouldn’t be working 
The language strings are all pulled in from a large JSON file. Other languages like Russian work so far.
Ah, I didn’t get the UK flag until I switched to landscape. And I didn’t get the CN flag until I hit the tap target for the UK flag.
It felt like it might be a browser not having the font. But I see this OK
So my next guess is it’s an encoding conflict somewhere.
Not so easy to fix as downloading a font. But once you find settings that work you’ll know.
You should check every encoding setting from start to end. I like UTF-8 without BOM but pick whatever and be consistent.
Maybe you will save some time if you can see what distinguishes “camlin” from the question mark text.
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