Talk:Ranma 1

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The Japanese characters arent showing for me either. Devotchka

First, as you can see, name of the page is broken. Unfortunatelly / is subpage seporator, so "Ranma 1/2" name just won't work.

Second, I only watched a few first episodes, but I don't remember any of girls wanting to marry Ranma. It was quite the opposite --Taw

I'll try to give a quick summary:

(Info moved to main page) --BlackGriffen

Juuitchan fixed your spelling, and changed it to "kana transcription" form, and added some names you forgot.

I'm using Netscape 4.73, and the Japanese characters (at least I think that's what they are) show up as question marks. Is there a way to see them, or am I just doomed forever? :) -- dreamyshade

There is no problem in I.E. 5. Apparently it is a bug in Netscape. If you "View->Page source", you will see the first line is a xml tag that says encoding="utf-8". Netscape would not use the Japanese font when this encoding is specified. I did an experiment as follows:
  • use the "File/>Save As" command to save the HTML into a file.
  • use a text editor to open the file and remove the words encoding="utf-8"
  • save the file
  • drag the file into Netscape
  • Change "View->Character Set" to Japanese Shift-JIS
  • reload the page
  • At this point the Japanese characters shows up correctly.
  • If you still don't see the characters, it may be a font issue.
  • Open "Edit->Preferences..." and select "Appearance->Fonts"
  • For the Encoding: Japanese
  • Pick a Japanese Font, on Windows, "MS Gothic" is a Japanese Font.

I don't know what the standard handling of this xml tag should be. However, if Wikipedia server omits this encoding tag, at least the Unicode text shows correctly for those with the Japanese font.

I don't believe this has anything to do with the XML PI - Netscape 4 is too old to take any notice of it. Instead, it's because the server sends Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1. Netscape 4 doesn't let you change the character set via View -> Character Set if it's specified in the Content-Type, and at the same time, it only shows characters in the specified set. --Carey Evans

The Wikipedia source text for this document is correct. The HTTP headers are correct. The HTML source output by the software is wrong, and it's a miracle that it displays correctly in any browser. This needs to be fixed. --LDC