creating a japanese web form with dreamweaver

[ty5]

I created a Japanese web form page with Dreamweaver 4 and everything looks great. When I fill in the form with Japanese characters, it still looks great. The form is set to be sent to my e-mail address when the user pushes the submit button. However once I receive the form, the Japanese characters are all messed up, showing funny symbols, etc. Anybody have any clues?

 

[WizyWyg]

Is your mail reader set - up to read japanese fonts?
What mail reader are you using?
Is yoru form sending it in Shif-JIS HTML encoded emails or Unicode?

 

[lebisol]

if in IE View-->encoding should give u the "feel" of what WIzy advised....answer his questions and u will get the answer to your own!
All the best!

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[ty5]

I am using Netscape mail 7.0 and it is set up to read Japanese fonts. We are receiving other Japanese e-mails correctly. When you asked me whether the form is sending in Shift_JIS HTML or Unicode, I assume this is when setting up the form in Dreamweaver? According to the directions of Macromedia, I went to Modify --> Page Properties and changed the Document Encoding to Japanese (Shift_JIS). Is this what you are talking about. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[WizyWyg]

No, it depends on the sendmail program of your server / or the form mail script you are using. The form in Dreamweaver will not determine the format of your email/ whatever us used to process from form to mail is.

are you using a cgi/perl or php asp?

 

[lebisol]

ty5
think of your
"sendmail program of your server "
--> as a little "mail man" who either speaks/reads/delivers either English or Japanese mail (or any lang. of choice)

"are you using a cgi/perl or php asp?"
--> is he on foot, in a car, in a plain

"dreamweaver"
--> wrapping paper/envelope

Hope these concepts explain better what Wizy is asking.......ok, I will shut up now

All the best!

> need more info?
:: don't click HERE ::

 

[ty5]

Thank you both (WizyWyg and lebisol)for all the info. Sorry I have not had a chance the last couple of days to work on this. I have contacted the person who had originally set up our site to see how he created our form mail. I did some searching on the internet also and it said that there should be a file formmail.pl that has a tag to show what language the form should be, is this correct? I am trying to find from the original developer where this file is located.

 

[WizyWyg]

I would suggest that you do not use any perl/cgi scripts that uses Formmail. As much as Matt fixed this problem of it being hijacked to send massive amt of fake emails to other recipients instead of you; just the fact that it was vulnerable to begin with shows that its not as secure as it sould be.

May i suggest that you look into an ASP or PHP version of a form mail script. There are many out there to choose, and with ASP and PHP you can set the settings of your outgoing mail from the form right in the scripting.

 

[lebisol]

I agree with Wizy.....any time u can get the DB and above mentied components to run smoothly...not only it is more secure but the performance is much better! make sure that your SMTP does not allow relay and no one will ever mail anything without your "permission"
...and they are free (depending on the platform)
all the best!

> need more info?
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