[TYPO3] Chinese language on a european website

[Luc Franken [TenToday]]

Please, please, please make a testinstallation on the real server 
because it depends on many things like: HTML encoding, the right 
headers, the Typo3 configuration etcetera. Do not mess with your real data!

Tobias Grønlund schreef:
> Hi Gideon,
> 
> Thanks for the answer. Now im one step closer to having my first chinese 
> TYPO3 powered webpage :)
> If i change the install tool thingie, do i have to change it back to 
> normal after i have placed the Chinese text on the webpage, or do it 
> allways have to be like that? And wont it fuck up the normal TYPO3 that 
> runs in danish when i change the charset? As you probably guessed, i've 
> never played with the charset before...
> 
> 
> 
> Gideon So wrote:
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>>     First of all, you need a correct coding for Chinese. Big5 for 
>> traditional Chinese and gb2312 for Simplified Chinese. The best thing 
>> to do is use utf-8 in the backend and frontend.
>>
>>     For backend, go to install tool -> all configuration -> 
>> forcecharset = utf-8
>>
>>        For frontend, put config.renderCharset = utf-8 into setup field 
>> of your template.
>>
>> Gideon
>>
>> Tobias Grønlund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Im soon to place a Chinese version of a website on our TYPO3 
>>> installation. Is there anything i have to do before it's able to show 
>>> the Chinese letters/symbols as supposed to?
>>>
>>> Otherwise thx. for at great newsgroup...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  - Tobias