Re: Web forms and Japanese

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> From: Peter Evans <peter@example.com>
JB > About 85% of Japanese WWW sites don't bother to state the coding
>> 
>> Moreover, a remarkable percentage of the 15% use the odd name "x-sjis"
>> to specify Shift-JIS.

Yes, that was "experimental" charset(sic) code that was used before The
Powers That Be approved the official "Shift_JIS". A lot of commercial
software suppliers never bothered to update.

Jim
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