Re: [tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:

> I have my LANG set to
> ja_JP.eucJP and I can view/input Japanese fine, but nobody is able to
> read my mails.

The Japanese text you are sending should be encoded as iso-2022-jp (jis) 
and your mailer should be configured to send the same encoding.  

> Another person told me I should use sjis, "just like everyone else". Is
> that correct?

To the chagrin of quite a few people around here, sjis is still alive and 
kicking. I just read that all Japanese i-mode pages need to be sjis...
 
Fewer and fewer people are sending sjis encoded email messages, however. 
 


Tony Laszlo, Tokyo
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