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I was working on a web app which supported 20+ languages across the world. One report which we developed was using ChartDirector (http://www.advsofteng.com/gallery.html) in verdana font. After development we found that ChartDirector is not displaying chinese/japanese/korean characters. it was displaying  junk boxes instead. On Investigation, it was found that the issue was with  Verdana as Verdana does not support Unicode characters for japanese, chinese , korean etc. I searched in the net for a solution and found in the ChartDirector forum that the tech support of ChartDirector is advising people to use a font called "MingLiU" (which I don't think is free). I didn't like the idea of installing seperate fonts for each locale that we support. Just then I thought why don't we use a common unicode font which is available with Windows. This thought took me to "Arial Unicode MS" which is the best bet for displaying all unicode characters and it was free with Windows XP/ Windows 2003. I replaced verdana with "Arial Unicode MS" in the code and it worked perfectly!!!

sample code:     bc.xAxis().setLabelStyle("Arial Unicode MS", 9);

 

 

Today I uploaded a new module to one of my sites hosted with a third party hosting provider(www.2gbhosting.com). This module reads from and writes to an XML file but once I uploaded the code to the server, I found that the application was not able to write to the XML file. The reason, as I guessed was .NET Security . By default, all files are assigned read only permission for the ASP.NET worker process. So we need to give write permission on the XML file to the ASP.NET worker process.

2gbhosting uses Plesk(version 8.4.0) and I am describing here the steps required in this scenario to fix this issue in Plesk.

Steps:

1. Login to Plesk.-> File Manager -> Browse to the File -> Click on the Lock icon on the right side of the file.

2. You will reach "Setting up Access permissions" page .

3. Click on "Plesk IIS WP User (IWAM_plesk(default))" user.

4. On the right side, check in allow column against Write permission. 

5. Click on OK and you are done. 

Happy coding and hosting!!!