I recently updated the browser on my computer to IE to 7.0 and found that, if
the website is in Unicode (UTF-8), all Kanji characters are displayed using
Chinese fonts, in which some characters are displayed in completely different
shape in Japanese fonts. This happens despite the fact that I added Japanese
to Language Preference in IE7. Is there anyway that I could display Kanji in
proper Japanese fonts?

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:12:01 -0700, Kintaro wrote:

> I recently updated the browser on my computer to IE to 7.0 and found that, if
> the website is in Unicode (UTF-8), all Kanji characters are displayed using
> Chinese fonts, in which some characters are displayed in completely different
> shape in Japanese fonts. This happens despite the fact that I added Japanese
> to Language Preference in IE7. Is there anyway that I could display Kanji in
> proper Japanese fonts?

Do Japanese sites use UTF-8 encoding? I have a few sites I visit, but they
mostly seem to use "Shift-JIS", or one of the other encoding types in the
Page menu list.

This one is an example of the "Japanese (Shift-JIS)" encoding being listed
in the Page | Encoding menus:

http://www.fics.ne.jp/~yamaneko/

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

I know that most Japanese sites use Japanese encodings, which IE 7 can handle
fine. However, the site that I need to access is the one located in a Course
Management System, which deliver a course via Web. The course encoding is
set to UTF-8 in order to allow the creator to use both English and Japanese
(if the course encoding is set to any of Japanese encodings, then all
interface language changes to Japanese, which students may not understand).

"N. Miller" wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:12:01 -0700, Kintaro wrote:
>
> > I recently updated the browser on my computer to IE to 7.0 and found that, if
> > the website is in Unicode (UTF-8), all Kanji characters are displayed using
> > Chinese fonts, in which some characters are displayed in completely different
> > shape in Japanese fonts. This happens despite the fact that I added Japanese
> > to Language Preference in IE7. Is there anyway that I could display Kanji in
> > proper Japanese fonts?
>
> Do Japanese sites use UTF-8 encoding? I have a few sites I visit, but they
> mostly seem to use "Shift-JIS", or one of the other encoding types in the
> Page menu list.
>
> This one is an example of the "Japanese (Shift-JIS)" encoding being listed
> in the Page | Encoding menus:
>
> http://www.fics.ne.jp/~yamaneko/
>
> --
> Norman
> ~Shine, bright morning light,
> ~now in the air the spring is coming.
> ~Sweet, blowing wind,
> ~singing down the hills and valleys.
>