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. :)