Problems entering Japanese with new template with Front Page 2002

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I recently bought a Front Page template from a reputable designer in the U.S.
to improve my Japanese web site's appearance. I'm having 2 problems that I
guess have the same cause. First of all, when I enter Japanese text in HTML
view (like meta tag content), the Japanese is converted to the underlying hex
code when I save the document (on my computer). The browser still recognizes
it, but I can't read it. Second, when users fill out form data, the e-mail I
receive is also in the hex code, so it's unreadable. If I enter html or
build the form without using the template (with a blank newpage1), no
problems - all looks normal and readable. Any ideas on how to solve this
problem?
Thanks very much.
 
Check your page language code / character set settings

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|I recently bought a Front Page template from a reputable designer in the U.S.
| to improve my Japanese web site's appearance. I'm having 2 problems that I
| guess have the same cause. First of all, when I enter Japanese text in HTML
| view (like meta tag content), the Japanese is converted to the underlying hex
| code when I save the document (on my computer). The browser still recognizes
| it, but I can't read it. Second, when users fill out form data, the e-mail I
| receive is also in the hex code, so it's unreadable. If I enter html or
| build the form without using the template (with a blank newpage1), no
| problems - all looks normal and readable. Any ideas on how to solve this
| problem?
| Thanks very much.
 
Thanks a lot the for the advice. The page properties are all set for
Japanese, and as I said, everything works normally when I make new pages
without the template. Presumably something in the css file or some other
setting in the template, but I don't have a clue what that might be - I don't
know squat about css. I found a Unicode converter on the web that takes the
code and turns it into readable Japanese online, so I can get around this,
but if anybody has any ideas I'd sure like to solve the fundamental problem.
Thanks again.
 
I finally realized that the template was somehow overriding the language
settings in Front Page properties. The charset should be "shift_jis" in the
case of Japanese, but the charset for Western European languages was being
inserted. I changed this manually, and voila, all problems solved.
 
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