This section describes how to create a Chinese HTML document in GB18030 encoding and publish it on the Apache server.
Chinese Web pages should use UTF-8 encoding. But for some reason, if you have to use GB18030 encoding for your Chinese Web pages.
you should enter Chinese characters with GB18030 encoding and set the "charset" attribute to "gb18030".
Here is a simple test I did on my local system:
1. Run my Chinese text editor that supports GB18030 encoding.
2. Enter the following HTML document:
<html>
<!-- Hello-GB18030.html
Copyright (c) 2007 by Dr. Herong Yang, http://www.herongyang.com/
-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb18030"/>
<body>
<b>Chinese characters in GB18030</b><br/>
Simplified characters: ??????<br/>
</body>
</html>
You see some question marks (?) in the source code listed above, because
this book uses UTF-8 encoding. GB18030 encoded characters can not be included here.
3. Save the as Hello-GB18030.html in GB18030 encoding.
On my Chinese text editor, I had to select "GB text file" as the "Save as type" to ensure my document was saved in GB18030 encoding.
Like many other Chinese text editors, it supports multiple encodings. If you are not careful, the document could be saved with a wrong encoding.
4. Copy Hello-GB18030.html to \local\apache\htdocs.
5. Now run Internet Explorer (IE) with http://localhost/Hello-GB18030.html.
You should see Chinese characters displayed correctly:
This proves that my Chinese editor, the Web server: Apache, and the Web browser: IE, all worked correctly
with Chinese characters in GB18030 encoding.
Note that GB18030 encoding is an extended version of GB2312 encoding, which is still supported by many applications.
