Re: Web forms and Japanese

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> From: Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>
>> I am working on some research project in one of my classes,
>> and we made an anketo that I want to put on the web. Should
>> I be specifying any encoding at the top of my HTML? The page
>> is in ISO-2022...

Well, you should state that in a <meta http ... charset=...>
line. Otherwise a lot of people will have to shift coding manually,
which is a bore.

About 85% of Japanese WWW sites don't bother to state the coding
(Japanese browser versions are configured with Shit-JIS selected). I
wish they'd behave.

Jim
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