# Chinese characters in the title

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 24, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891 "2006-03-24T21:21:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891/1 "2006-03-24T21:21:11Z")

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Dear experts,

In my application,

Chinese characters work great in the body of the page. However, in the  
title, they appear as boxes instead of something like " ²â���Ð�� ".

I also noticed CNET having the same issue:  
[http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm](http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm)

So my question to experts here is that is it possible to show Chinese  
characters properly in the title?

Thanks  
Frank

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**Author:** ![frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891/2 "2006-03-24T23:19:54Z")

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I don’t see any problem of CNET Chinese title in my firefox under XP  
English version.

Frank wrote:

> I also noticed CNET having the same issue:  
> [http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm](http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm)

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**Author:** ![frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@frank](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891/3 "2006-03-25T02:05:42Z")

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Thanks Sky for your reply.

Do you see boxes on the title of this URL?  
[http://blogs.adoppt.com/blog/yang/-20](http://blogs.adoppt.com/blog/yang/-20)

Frank

Sky Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: I don’t see any problem of CNET  
Chinese title in my firefox under XP  
English version.

Frank wrote:

> I also noticed CNET having the same issue:  
> [http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm](http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/news/net/story/0,3800050307,39438403,00.htm)

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chinese-characters-in-the-title/86891/4 "2006-03-26T11:48:03Z")

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Frank wrote:

> Thanks Sky for your reply.
> 
> Do you see boxes on the title of this URL?  
> [http://blogs.adoppt.com/blog/yang/-20](http://blogs.adoppt.com/blog/yang/-20)  
> Looks fine to me (no boxes) - Firefox and Epiphany on Ubuntu 5.10.