Japanese Eye On Displaying Japanese Text Characters In IE6

Thanks to Mickey for reporting that the Japanese characters are not displayed in IE6 / Internet Explorer and even some pages seemed to be invisble.

I worked out what the problem was and hopefully I have now fixed it. Since this site is hosted in the UK on a .co.uk domain name, it makes sense to assume it is all in English and the server tells the web browser that it is delivering English text pages. I simply specified the character set as UTF-8 with a meta tag which is recognised by my favourite browser Firefox. But it seems this method is no good for all browsers. With Internet Explorer you have to manually select the character encoding as UTF-8 to view each page and repeat the process on each page.

Well, my fix is to get the server to send an http packet that immediately tells the browser that the characters on this forum are encoded in UTF-8 which allows Japanese characters to display ok.

It was a simple matter of inserting this line of code into the start of the php code of the index page:
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

Hopefully this cures the problem of correctly displaying the Japanese character set on this forum. Kiss