Japanese Characters - Junk display

[rmdmunib]

Hi,
We are using MandrakeLinux9.1,KDE desktop, Apache2-2.0.44-11mdk. We have two versions of our website. One in English and the other in Japanese language. When we access the website the English version displays correctly.In the home page of English Version we have a link for Japanese version.If we click the link the Japanese web page displays but the japanese characters are not being displayed properly. Browser used IE6.It displays junk characters.The japanese character set used in the code of the html pages is Shift_jis.Somebody please help us in sorting out this problem.

Regards,
Munib

[bwkaz]

As a first guess, I think it's an IE problem. Do you have a font installed on the IE machine that supports the Shift-JIS character set?

As a rule, web servers don't determine how stuff looks. All they determine is what content is served; it's up to the web browser to interpret that content correctly. And IE is generally horrible at doing that according to any standard except Microsoft's own ancient ones. (That's what happens when you use a browser that hasn't had a new feature added in something like 4-5 years).