Chinese characters in labels and tooltips

[jasontruell]

Does anyone know how to get UTF-8 characters to display properly with FusionMaps?

 

 

 

The page is saved as UTF-8, the XML encoding is set to UTF-8, and I'm using the setDataURL method to link to my XML data source.

 

 

 

What am I missing? Thanks for the help.

[Rahul Kumar]

Hi,

 

 

 

Please make sure that your XML file is save as UTF-8 enabled.

 

 

 

Could you please see this post http://www.fusioncharts.com/forum/FindPost8054.aspx for more information?

[jasontruell]

Thanks for your reply. I referenced the other thread and tried again to save the xml file at UTF-8 but that didn't seem to help. It is saved as UTF-8 but the Chinese stills comes up as unreadable. Here is the content of the XML file below:

 

<map baseFontSize='9' baseFontColor='252525' baseFont='Verdana' showCanvasBorder='0' showShadow='0' showBevel='0' useSNameInLabels='0' includeValueInLabels='0' showLabels='1' includeNameInLabels='1' showMarkerLabels='0' showMarkerToolTip='1' borderColor='C7C1A0' fillColor='edebd5' useHoverColor='1' hoverColor='993300'>

  <data>

  <entity id='CN.HK' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/hong-kong/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 4 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.QH' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/qinghai/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.YN' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/yunnan/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.SA' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/shaanxi/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.LN' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/liaoning/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 3 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.FJ' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/fujian/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 4 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.GS' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/gansu/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 8 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.HN' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/hunan/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.HU' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/hubei/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 2 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.ZJ' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/zhejiang/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 8 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.HE' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/henan/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.HB' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/hebei/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 2 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.JX' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/jiangxi/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 2 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.JS' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/jiangsu/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 8 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.XJ' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/xinjiang/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 4 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.GX' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/guangxi/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.GD' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/guangdong/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 11 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.SX' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/shanxi/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 3 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.AH' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/anhui/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 2 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.TJ' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/tianjin/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.SC' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/sichuan/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.TA' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/taiwan/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 2 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.BJ' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/beijing/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 13 Stories' />

  <entity id='CN.NM' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/inner-mongolia/' displayValue='???' toolText='???: 1 Story' />

  <entity id='CN.SH' link='http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hant/stories/by-locale/china/shanghai/' displayValue='??' toolText='??: 28 Stories' />

  </data>

</map>

 

Thanks

Edited November 28, 2008 by Guest

[jasontruell]

Okay, I just got it to work. I'm using Dreamweaver on a Mac and when I checked "Include Unicode Signature (BOM)" under page properties it caused the Chinese characters to display correctly in the browser.