Kanji of the day

[elfs]

Today's kanji is 生, pronounced せい or しょお,usually, but accompanied by a whole bunch of other pronounciations depending. One common kun reading is い。 It means "life," "be born," or "student." Common words are 先生, "teacher", 蓄生 (ちくしょう)、meaning "beast" or "damn!" (Often heard in anime). Another meaning is "raw," as in 生乳 (せいにゅう), meaning "raw milk."

Comments

[kengr]

The kanji and other stuff show up as question marks in Mozila firefox and those "unkwown character" squares in IE.

Alas, the only workarounds I know of require an HTML page that you get to control the character set on. LJ is pretty hard coded to IS0 8859-1.

Pity, I'd have liked to see the characters. :-)

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Hm, works for me. You may not have the font it's encoded as.

(Actually, all pages appear to be defined as UTF-8. The character set isn't an issue.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually, these pages are all UTF-8 enabled, so it suggests that you just don't have the font set to which it's encoded. Dunno what you can do about that; it might involve downloading a language pack and reboot (or restarting X or Aqua or whatever).

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

I see UTF-8 specified in two places:
the headers:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
the HTML:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Those are really the same thing, though I bet browsers vary in their support for each, especially older browsers.

It's also implied, since the DTD given is for XHTML. XHTML must be valid XML. XML, absent a different specification of an encoding in the xml declaration (e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1">)

And thank goodness that LJ is not actually hardcoded ISO-8859-1. That'd be a pain.