Problem reading some Korean text!

The_Bargain_Hunters

Hi I am not sure if anyone can help but i have Windows Vista and I can type and usually read Korean text, (안녕하세요!) however I do still have some problems on some site that just come up with ±×³²ÀÚ ±×¿©ÀÚ instead!
is there something I should install?

CHR15

I know nothing of Korean but I'll have a stab if noone else will!

Have you looked at the Language packs available from MS?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933702/en-us

or perhaps installing the Korean version of IE may help

http://www.microsoft.com/korea/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx

The_Bargain_Hunters

Thanks for trying, but I have the language installed as I said I can read and type in Korean but it is some sort of other reader I think I kneed, so I was just wondering of anyone knew what I need to add.

buglawton

If you right click on the page and do View Source, and search for "charset=" what follows this?

The_Bargain_Hunters

Thanks I will have to find a page as the ones I have like this will not right click!
The main culprits are pages that have info from downloads - even from friends!
(next time i get one i will try to find out source)

buglawton

Even if right click is disabled, do File > Save Page As and note where you save it & the name. Then open in in notepad or wordpad and search for the charset=

The_Bargain_Hunters

Hi I have another problem Korean page http://gis.seoul.go.kr/
link to web site is
depending on browser (I have firefox as main one but it wont let me open any links) if i use internet explorer I still can't see map in english (everything appears apart from map) if I click on Korean version i get the map but names all in that weird text on map but rest of page is in Korean! ( I can't right click on map as it just zooms in)
if I right click and view source on side of page I get this for the charset
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ks_c_5601">
is this the part you mean?

buglawton

Well in XP using Firefox, my browser correctly detects the language using auto detection and renders the Korean texts OK. And the charset vale you posted above looks correct. On my PC the East Asian langages are installed. Maybe I will try later on another computer where I think they are not. Sorry I can't advise in Vista - did you take CHRIS's advice above and ensure you installed the East Asian Language Pack of similar?

Comment about using East Asian encoding: On our pages, any that Simplified Chinese eg http://www.bb-china.com//travel-planning-tips.htm will NOT be reradable on anyone's computer if they did not install the language pack and if they are not using auto detection. This is unreliable, ok if your target market were ONLY Korean (or Chinese) but unpredictable if Western computers will see it. We plan to replace the Chinese Encoding this page (see link below) with little jpg images soon for this reason. We would lose the Google searchability on those words but as the target viewers are Western it does not matter.

Note to The Bargain Hunters - Can you try this page B&B in China - Travel Tips from your XP and Vista systems - can you see the proper Chinese characters there (scroll to bottom of the page)?

The_Bargain_Hunters

Hi, (你好，안녕하세요),
Thank you (谢谢, 감사합니다),for the reply, yes I can get the Chinese characters on the pages you sent, so I think the language pack is installed. any other ideas?

buglawton

Regional and Language Options > Languages, is the East Asian Languages box ticked? East Asian includes Korean as far as XP is concerned, not sure what the equivalent situation is with Vista I'm afraid.

The_Bargain_Hunters

Hi,
Many thanks for your help, although vista does not have the same options, or anything like, I clicked on a thing that was something to do with Unicode settings and it appears to have worked!!!:j:j:j:j
I now just have the problem of translating the text - as I still can't get the english version of map to work!:o
감사합니다 (Kam-sa-ham-ni-da!) = thank you in korean!