RE: [tlug] jp encoding

["legend" <fukudam@example.com>]

> >> For that reason, in Japan,
> >> it is pretty much like an industry-standard (AFAIK)
> >> to use sjis in HTML and JSP, and EUC in Servlet, if
> >> you were developing on Unix platform.
>
> IE is not the reason that Shit_JIS is commonly used in Japan. Shit_JIS
> usage was endemic on Windblows system before IE appeared. It was the
> native code system of Japonified Windblows software - after all Macrosloth
> invented it. For that reason Windblows-produced HTML tended to be in HTML
> even in the days when Mosaic and Netscape were the browser choices.

Windows = IE

> And it's not "an industry-standard", any more than driving a Toyota is an
> industry standard. The *standard* is to use meta tags. A standard mostly
> honoured in the breach.

Well, I didn't say IT IS "an industry-standard", did I?
I said "pretty much like an industry-standard".
I worked on some projects for NTT and it was done
with sjis + euc. And lots of my colleagues working
for other companies tell me similar things. That's
all.

-mune