Hi Knowledgeable Forumites,
I intend to design a web-based survey that contains both Chinese and English words.
But my concern is that the survey participant's computer may not configured correctly to display Chinese characters. I don't want my participants to perform any extra configuration steps on their computer (e.g. downloading Chinese fonts, go to view--> encoding...) just so that they can view my survey questions as this will definitely discourage them from taking part.
Now, is there a way to input Chinese characters in web survey such that anyone with any computer would be able to view them without going through additional steps?
Thanks a lot!
How about typing the Chinese characters in an image editor and save and embed them into the web pages as images instead?
Use charset
Simplified Chinese charset is gb2312
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html charset=gb2312">
Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Use charset
Simplified Chinese charset is gb2312
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html charset=gb2312">
Erm, if the user's system doesn't have the required font file to display Chinese characters, I don't think changing the charset of the HTML document will help, as stated in the last paragraph of the W3 document you have linked.
Originally posted by LatecomerX:Erm, if the user's system doesn't have the required font file to display Chinese characters, I don't think changing the charset of the HTML document will help, as stated in the last paragraph of the W3 document you have linked.
Yup. But to answer to TS request, I think that answers it, which is no need to go to View > Encoding > Select GB2312. Anyway, if the user doesn't have the necessary language packs, Windows will auto prompt (if charset is set). Not applicable for Linux and Macs.