https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese Gravity Support Forums Topic: encoding for the validation message in Japanese en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:59:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese#post-68462 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:48:27 +0000 Chris Hajer 68462@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Does that work for you, or would you still like to investigate translating certain strings for your Gravity Form automatically with a language setting or something? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese#post-68428 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:37:08 +0000 triceratops 68428@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I found a site that will convert to HTML entities for you. Here it is for reference ....</p> <p><a href="http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022023/javascript/make_html_entity-ja.htm" rel="nofollow">http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022023/javascript/make_html_entity-ja.htm</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese#post-68416 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:30:20 +0000 triceratops 68416@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes we did. It worked when I just had to do two characters, but I thought there might be a better way to do it by specifying the encoding or something. Using HTML entitys for long sentences is going to be a bit of a pain.</p> <p>Is there no place I could just specify the charset and be done with it?</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Mark </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese#post-68404 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:53:57 +0000 Chris Hajer 68404@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Seems like we tried something like this in the past? Can you use the HTML entities for those characters, rather than the actual characters? Like we did here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/first-last-name-labels-into-japanese#post-64387" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/first-last-name-labels-into-japanese#post-64387</a></p> <p>I don't have a good resource for the conversion from Japanese character to HTML entity but you can find one online. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/encoding-for-the-validation-message-in-japanese#post-68219 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:45:51 +0000 triceratops 68219@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi<br /> I'm trying to change a form validation message into Japanese but it's coming out mumbo jumbo. Like this ....<br /> �K�v�ȍ��ڂ�S�Ă��L��肢���܂��B </p> <p>This is the code I've added to functions.php ....</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_validation_message&quot;, &quot;change_message&quot;, 10, 2); function change_message($message, $form){ return &quot;必要な項目を全てご記入お願いします。&quot;; }</code></pre> <p>What would I need to add to change the encoding to something that will give me the Japanese?</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Mark </p>