Chinese characters not displaying

[Bernie6421]

Hi,

 

I use Fusion charts 3.1, I have the problem, that the chinese characters are not displayed correctly:

See the first chart here: http://www.factfish.org/zh/tonjiguo/%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD/%E4%BA%BA%E5%9D%87%E8%83%BD%E6%BA%90%E6%B6%88%E8%80%97

 

What's strange is that the second chart on the Page (the Pie chart) displays the characters correctly.

The XML of the chart seems OK: All charcters are encoded as XML entities:

<chart caption='人均能源消耗 (千克油当量)' ...

You can take a look at the XML here: http://www.factfish.org/statistics/drill_down_line_chart.php?data_set=105&location=47〈=zh

 

In the PHP the Chart is created like this:

$xml_string = $doc->saveXML();
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

$xml_string=str_replace('"',"'",$xml_string);
echo trim(preg_replace('/<\?xml.*\?>/', '', $xml_string, 1));

Any ideas?

 

Thank you

 

Bernhard

Edited January 27, 2015 by Bernie6421

[Vishalika]

Hi,

 

To use multi-lingual characters on the chart, you need to use UTF-8 encoded XML with a BOM stamp within the first 3 bytes of the XML file.

 

Refer this link for reference: http://docs.fusioncharts.com/tutorial-how-to-guides-using-special-characters-in-a-chart.html

 

Hope this helps.

Edited January 28, 2015 by Vishalika

[Bernie6421]

Hi Vishalika,

 

thank you very much for your response, I tried to add the BOM at the beginning of the file but it's still not working.

In my case I don't use the UTF8 characters directly as caption but the XML entities, so it should work also without UTF8 encoding (?).

Do you have another idea?

 

Thanks

 

Bernhard

[Vishalika]

Hi,

 

Can you please specify how you are adding the BOM stamp?

 

Also, you necessarily need to use UTF-8 encoded XML for displaying multi-lingual characters in caption.

 

If possible, send a scaled down sample so that we can help you out further?

 

Awaiting response.

[Bernie6421]

Thank you for your answer, I used this code for adding the BOM stamp

header ( 'Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8' );
echo pack ( "C3" , 0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf );

Here is a narrowed version of the chart:

<chart caption='人均能源消耗 (千克油当量)'>
    <categories>
        <category label='1960'/>
        <category label='1961'/>
    </categories>
    <dataset seriesName='德国'>
        <set value='1952.53390446186' toolText='1960: 1.953'/>
        <set value='1994.3205580687' toolText='1961: 1.994'/>
    </dataset>
</chart>

Hope that can help you to track the problem,

 

Thanks

 

Bernhard

Edited January 29, 2015 by Bernie6421

[Vishalika]

Hi,

 

Try replacing the caption characters with the main Chinese language characters.

 

Since from our end no issue has been replicated.