{"id":210,"date":"2011-06-05T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/mojibake-on-the-ipad\/"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T10:24:45","slug":"mojibake-on-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/mojibake-on-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojibake on the iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on the Shinkansen from Kurume to Hiroshima, and I just discovered that the web site with the bus schedule for the last leg of my return home has an encoding issue on the iPad. I tried to visit the site to find out when the next bus is, but all the text was garbled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-5-2011-515-PM1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-5-2011-515-PM1.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1307268214710.1626\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I don&#8217;t give in easily. I have more than a handful of browsers on the iPad, so it was just a matter of time before I found one that would work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-5-2011-515-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-5-2011-515-PM.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1307268214630.32\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opera seems to do the trick. So, if you find yourself having trouble reading Japanese on your iPad, try using Opera. Unfortunately, now that I can see the schedule I realize that I will arrive in Hiroshima just a few minutes before the next bus leaves. It looks like I am in for one of those &#8220;OJ runs&#8221; through the crowded station&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the browsers that did not work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiroden.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/kb_jikoku.cgi?n=126103612423828\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Hiroden bus schedule site\">the Hiroden bus schedule site<\/a> were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safari<\/li>\n<li>Atomic Web<\/li>\n<li>iChromy<\/li>\n<li>Knowtilus<\/li>\n<li>Mercury<\/li>\n<li>Rikai<\/li>\n<li>Terra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting on the Shinkansen from Kurume to Hiroshima, and I just discovered that the web site with the bus schedule for the last leg of my return home has an encoding issue on the iPad. I tried to visit the site to find out when the next bus is, but all the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-Photo-Jun-5-2011-515-PM1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1u7IY-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}