DBCS problem in Web Matrix Reloaded
What a great news that
Web Matrix Reloaded
was official launched!
However, I saw a thread
about using languages other then English in the
ASP.NET Forum
recently, and I open my WM and try to stimulate it when
seeing this post.
I typed some characters in WM
in the Design View as:
Then, it display nice on browser:

So, I replied a "OK" message to the corresonding thread. However, I saw a reply from the same member and try to do it again, then I face some difficulty.
After I
close the WM and re-open the
file again, the character in the Design and Code mode become:
Yes, it's a Known Issue for WM as stated
on the Release Note of WM:
Fixed-Width DBCS characters do not display
correctly
- Support for DBCS characters is not
implemented yet.
So, DBCS is not yet implement in the Matrix Reloaded
and saving the file in the format of UniCode or UTF have
no luck. Yes, it's not anything new as I searched that
Brain have already replied
it in the Bug Report Forum and a couple of posts and discussion have been raised
about using non-English in the Web Matrix Forum in the past:
E.g.
- Still have problem with Chinese on WM0.6
- If you ere chinese,pls enter in
- why web matrix does not support chinese(GB2312)
- don't support the Chinese char in the code view
- Why doesn't WebMatrox support Chinese?
- Can Not write Chinese??
- missing central european characters
- ...
Personally, I believe quite a lot of
Chinese and Japanese were using this FREE tool. I'm not
sure it's the cultural, social or financial issue, but
using non-English character seem a pretty nice feature
request to the WM Project Team. :)
Anyway, WM
Reloaded contain many cool feature and bug fix and I'll
blog more about WM Reloaded later. :)