Microsoft IME (2000) / DW 4 / Japanese Shift-JIS

[WizyWyg]

In need of some help concerning authoring Japanese pages using DW 4 on a USA Windows 2000 machine with the Microsoft IME.

I have followed the technical documents found at:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14684

concerning the development of multilingual sites for authoring with Dreamweaver, and have set the "locale" settings of my machine to Japanese; the default encoding within Dreamweaver to Japanese; the Defeault page encoding to Shif-JIS; and I still cannot type one single japanese character in DW in either Code or design view.

All I get is ???????????????????'s for all the japanese I type in.

I can type using the Microsoft IME in Photoshop without changes to my machine settings.
I can type in NoteTab Lite in Japanese withoug changes to my machine settings.

I cannot type in Japanese with or without changes to my machine settings for DW 4.

Has anyone been successful in creating Japanese sites on an American Win2k machine , by typing or cuting and pasting japanese text directly into DW 4?

My work around is typing it out in Word, Save AS HTML , Open up in Netscape Composer 7, SAVE AS ENCODING Shift-JIS, then opening that up in DW to clean up the word mess of html.

Yet if I make one stupid mistake in DW to correct the mess, an extraneous character or space can/does change a character in japanese into something else.

 

[lebisol]

perhaps:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/font_encoding.htm

All the best!

 

[lebisol]

came from:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Dreamweaver+HTML+in+Japanese

 

[lebisol]

well...perhaps someone else can benifit from the post!

 

[WizyWyg]

Actually, Macromedia's solution was wrong. I had to post a correction to their documents.

YOU HAVE to make your OS Japanese Native (region and language settings). Their documents only state to change the regional settings to Japanese. There is two other steps to go through to make it work properly.

 

[lebisol]

cool ok....post the solution when u get the time for the other people....if u want
All the best!

 

[ty5]

I am also using Dreamweaver 4 to create a form in Japanese and have not had any luck with what I found on Macromedia's web support. I read your last post, indicating a solution. Would you share this with me. Thanks in advance.

 

[WizyWyg]

OOps sorry, I knew that I forgot to do something

In the end, I just went into my computer settings an changed the environment to Japanese and the default lanague to japanese. Then opened up dreamweaver and made the default coding to Japanese.

Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings

 

[lebisol]

Wizy
wasn't this what MM recomeded...? ( I assumed that they would)
"Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings "
sometime does not apply to all progs.....most of the Micro$oft's crap is compatible but I do not know about MM.....anyhow
good luck

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[WizyWyg]

Lebisol,

Actually the only thing they recommended was to ONLY change the default language. And when it wouldn't work, I just changed my settings to be Japanese totally. That solved the problems instantly.

 

[lebisol]

hey Wizy....this is why I call support only when "I am about to be shot"
nice work WizyWyg!

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