[TYPO3] Chinese language on a european website

[Tobias Grønlund]

Wauw, didnt know that it could harm my whole installation. Thanks for 
the warning... I will do that!

Luc Franken [TenToday] wrote:
> 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