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bluedevils
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 Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: Grip and chinese fonts |
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Hi all,
I'm trying to grip chinese CDs and many of the titles come up as gibberish from the cddb lookup. I can't be that far off because there are a few CDs that show the proper characters. I'll try to give more info when I get home, but I did emerge some chinese fonts. |
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bluedevils
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| I have done many of the things listed in the gentoo chinese problem thread and I had already emerge arphicfonts (as well as more than 75% of the fonts listed in portage). I cannot read the chinese symbols in the gentoo forum and yet when I go to yesasia dot com, I see the proper characters. |
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akar
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Hi, bluedevils,
For Chinese, we have major 3 character encodings. so unproperly setting of the browser's character encodings will results in "unreadable chinese symbols".
Please set your favourite web browser's charactor encoding to chinese UTF-8. if you are using Firefox, here is a screenshot which shows howto:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041213-newsletter.xml
Eric Hsu, has also provides a guide on the forum's encoding in Welcome all non-Chinese speaking friends! . However, i think maybe we should made it more eye catching. 
| Eric Hsu wrote: | | Note: the Chinese forum's encoding is UTF-8, please set your browser's charactor encoding to UTF-8 to view the Chinese posts properly. If you would like to try and post in Chinese, you will have to set the encoding to UTF-8 too |
| bluedevils wrote: | I'm trying to grip chinese CDs and many of the titles come up as gibberish from the cddb lookup. I can't be that far off because there are a few CDs that show the proper characters. I'll try to give more info when I get home, but I did emerge some chinese fonts.
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For this problem, could you provide a tiny screenshot on the proper one and one for the gibberish screen.
Cheers, 
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bluedevils
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Sorry, I currently have no place to host them, but you've got mail. The gibberish one is a 1994 faye wong cd.
BTW - thanks, my firefox shows the right characters now. |
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akar
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| bluedevils wrote: | | Sorry, I currently have no place to host them, but you've got mail. |
, OK. BTW, may you want to have a Gmail account?
| bluedevils wrote: | | The gibberish one is a 1994 faye wong cd. |
I got the hint from the Year of the album. And + this facts
| akar wrote: |
For Chinese, we have major 3 character encodings. so unproperly setting of the browser's character encodings will results in "unreadable chinese symbols".
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 i guess the old entry (in year 1994 maybe) is either cp950 (Big5 Traditional Chinese) or cp936 (gb2312 Simplified Chinese), not UTF-8 encoding. So it is the Chinese encoding problem of this album entry in freedb.
 config your grip to meet this case, by following its official document, Grip: The "DiscDB" config tab particular this field: DB Character set encoding, change to cp950, cp936, big5, gb2312, one each time to replace the default "UTF-8", confirm the change and remember to refresh(refetch) the entry for Faye Wong1994. (i don't know particular what encoding it is, the worst case, you need to try 4 times!!  ).
If it is success, may you can submit the correct version to freedb. Thanks.
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bluedevils
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you I will try it first thing in the morning |
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bluedevils
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes cp936 did it. Thanks. I will inform freedb |
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