Hi - I need your help (whoever you are)
I am trying to write a html email which will be used as the release message for Quarto. Work in progress, ie the html code can be seen at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WQ#Publicising_Quarto_by_html_email
The text I'm using at the moment is a straight copy from the meta release message page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WQ/2/Release_message
My problem is that, working with Dreamweaver on a Mac (OSX), I can't get non-English or non-Roman - specifically Japanese - characters to work in my version. I have copied the source code from the page as well as the display text (and edit-mode text). I have tried copying the text with text encoding changed on my browser (Safari) - Ascander even copied the Japanese text with different coding (?) into the page but none of these work. I can copy Japanese etc. text into Word and Text Edit, but for some reason, I cannot then get these to save and display the file as a normal html file that opens and functions properly in a browser. Simple text is the only program that does this for me but it doesn't seem to support non-English/Roman script :(
Can anyone help me with this predicament? If you can, can you spell it out in nice and easy steps? Also, if you have a comment to make on the mail itself, you could go to the quarto-l mailing list - I have only posted here as I haven't found any absolute solutions there.
Thanks Cormac