Element DS is undefined in APPLICATION.

[quiero mas]

Hi Everyone - Finally got to the upload stage. uploaded to my host - mx7 ok.
[url]www.healthhokkaido.com[/url]
I get this Element DS is undefined in APPLICATION.
not quite sure what it means but i know that my db are not working
I uploaded them and im sure i have referenced them properly
Any Ideas or help most appreciated
btw im new to the game so please keep the answers to my level (lol - yeah i
know)

Regards
MArk

[quiero mas]

Sorry everyone better give some more info
im using ms access database - on a japanese os
and i stuffed up the link is actually this one
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://healthhokkaido.com/files/index.cfm

Thanks">[url]http://healthhokkaido.com/files/index.cfm[/url]

Thanks</a> for your help
desperate NOOB

[PaulH *ACE*]

quiero mas wrote:

> Thanks">[url]http://healthhokkaido.com/files/index.cfm[/url]

i see a different error: " Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft
Access Driver] Selected collating sequence not supported by the operating system."

either japanese access on non-japanese OS or vice versa. what driver are you
using? the plain access on or access for unicode?

your encodings are also messed up, the page comes up as utf-8 (as in your your
meta header) but there appears to be some shift_JIS on that page which shows as
mojibake until you swap the browser's encoding.

[quiero mas]

access on japanese os (xp)
developers cf mx7
unicode
yeah bit bifuddled actually

sorry for the multiple encodings was tring to find the solution
I'm pretty new to this

Any help most appreciated
Mark

[PaulH **AdobeCommunityExpert**]

quiero mas wrote:

> access on japanese os (xp)

can you change the collation or version of access? sorry to be so general, i
haven't used in access in years.

> unicode

what encoding is the data in the db? you might want to use that as app's
encoding. i guess since the japanese language pages are shift_JIS that should be
the app's encoding. and since it's probably not unicode, might try the "normal"
access driver.

[quiero mas]

send us the fonts (in TTF)
my host sent the above mail

the wierd thing is if you check <a target=_blank
class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://healthhokkaido.com/files/OSHIMI_Greeen_Tea.cfm
even">[url]http://healthhokkaido.com/files/OSHIMI_Greeen_Tea.cfm[/url]
even</a> the Q marks in the english are mojibake

I cant change the encoding for some reason - access wont give encoding options
in web options

im using access 2000 maybe

[PaulH **AdobeCommunityExpert**]

quiero mas wrote:

> send us the fonts (in TTF)
> my host sent the above mail

?? fonts?

> even">[url]http://healthhokkaido.com/files/OSHIMI_Greeen_Tea.cfm[/url]
> even</a> the Q marks in the english are mojibake

you're mixing encodings. did that text come from a word document? you need to go
thru your editorial process & see what s/w was used & what encodings were used.
you'll never permanently fix this unless you understand's what's happening.
ideally you want 1 single encoding back to front. in multilingual cases that
usually means unicode.

> I cant change the encoding for some reason - access wont give encoding options
> in web options

what i meant was what encodings did you use to store the data?

[quiero mas]

THanks for all you help Paul.
Ive had some progress
I brought a html file from another site im working on. and put it into the
site im having problems with. It was able to viewed fine even though its
Japanese. So like you said no server fonts problem just encoding. Next I copied
content from on of my problem pages and put into the file i had brought across
- displays fine <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://healthhokkaido.com/files/column_1.htm
What">[url]http://healthhokkaido.com/files/column_1.htm[/url]
What</a> is the next best step?
should i find out the encoding for the page that works? and somehow convert
all the others?
Sorry for the lame questions im new to all this
Best Regards
Mark