When I view my Asian pages, I see some "corrupt characters/ multiple "questions marks" / mumble jumble...
What does it mean? ... What should I do? ...
The meta tags you often find in the header is for western languages to be interpreted for the Western Search Engines i.e. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> This type of encoding in the meta tag is required in order to have the pages converted universally for all search engines and browsers. The Asian meta tags differ and thus that page will be accepted and read only by the Asian Search Engines and view correctly only with browsers set to read the Asian characters.
All the languages vary and are set according to the their particular encoding. There are many different codes you may use. The one we are using is accepted by the appropriate language search engines which the pages are submitted to.
The Asian encoding is handled by our Asian Department overseas. You really need your browser to be set correctly to view the pages correctly and even when you do that the source code appears to be corrupted as well. But on the Asian browsers all appears correctly for the viewer.
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