Foreign Language And Other Settings In Bulletin Board

[sychen]

I used the "Bulletin Board" under CPanel to install my bbs/forum. I have had these problems for quite a whole but I always ignore them. But now the traffic in my bbs is increasing and I can not ignore it anymore. I search the forum here but really can not find an answer. So it will be greatly appreciated if any one of you can help. Here are the questions

 

1. The bbs seems to have problem on foreign language, like Traditional/Simplified Chinese. If the user typed in Chinese, especially in the topics, it will apear as meanless coding.

 

I know one thing I can do, is to ask the members to turn on special language in IE before they do anything, but then they will have to do it everythime they view/post a new page. Plus, the users won't always cooperate. They will just throw complaints, or they will just leave.

 

Is there anyway to resolve this ?

 

I have seen other web site using the same php bbs in Chinese, and they don't seem to have the problem

 

2. Is there a way to let the bbs inform me evertime there is a new post there ?

I have activate to inform me when there is a reply. But, that is not the purpose of my board. I do my tech support on my bbs, so I will want to know if there is a new question on the bbs. The "new post since last login" only print the new topic. and "remind my by email when there is a reply" only inform me through email. Anyway, it is difficult to manage these two together.

 

3. Is there anyway for enforce my new member to enter certain info before they can even try to get approved ? Now only email and user ID are required.

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

Regards

S-Y. Chen

[sychen]

And, if this is not the best place to post this question, please let me know where should I post it. I am really totally confused............

 

Regards

S-Y. Chen

www.FEA-Optimization.com

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, sychen.

 

While I don´t use phpbb (which is the forum I think you refer to), there are lots of users here that do use it, so hold on and someone should know the answer.

 

If you want, you can always take a look in phpbb´s own forum and see if there is others who have run in to same problems. The forum can be found here.

[TCH-Andy]

Welcome to the forums Chen

 

1. We have a number of people with Chinese forums, so it should be fine. Can you provide a link to the forum, and I'll have a quick look if it's an obvius setting causing your problem.

 

I can probably even write 你好 in the forum here, and if you have the Chinese fonts on your computer you should be able to read it (for those that haven't it will be just square boxes).

 

2. If you ask for notifications in each forum of the BB, it will email for every post.

 

3. I think you would have to modify the script if you wanted additional information.

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums!

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums Chen

[TCH-Rob]

Welcome to the forums Chen

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums Chen

[sychen]

This overwhelming.....thanks for everyone

 

the bbs is under http://www.fea-optimization.com/bbs/

 

You may have to register in order to get into the forum.

 

The Chinese charaters in the forum index are all OK. Because I have set IE to Chinese viewing before I do anything.

 

But, if you enter, for example, the "Design Optimizaiton" forum, you will see meaningless characters on the title of the topics. EVen if you set the viewing to Chinese, there are still some title not showing well.

 

I know there is a lot of Chinese forum using this, and they don;t have this problem. So I must have done something wrong.

 

Also, I think I have to change the script in order to enforce the user filling in more info. But I am just clueless about this scripting. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

 

And, thanks again for everyone's support. TCH has been providing superior support, and that's why me and my friends keep on refering firends to TCH.

 

 

Regards

S-Y. Chen

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Taking a look, but need your authorisation to let me see whats going on.

 

You may want to ask this same question over at www.phpBB.com as they do support multi language

 

JimE

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

A quick search revealed this is a common problem on phpBB forums. Anyway, try this solution:

 

I had the same problem before, fixed by:

 

Insert your Chinese characters incoding

 

language/lang_english/lang_main

Code:

>$lang['ENCODING'] = 'windows-1256';

'windows-1256' this for arabic, i don't know the chinese.

And make sure your templates/subSilver/overall_header

>charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}

Let us know!

 

JimE

[sychen]

I was able to solve the problem by installing the language pack from

 

www.phpBB.com

 

And I look for few days to see if there is any problem.

 

Overall speaking, it looks fine

 

Thanks for everyone's help !

 

Regards

S-Y. Chen

[TCH-Andy]

I'm glad you have it all sorted, many thanks for letting us know the solution as it will help others