Re: [tlug] html editor :) IBM Homepage Builder

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[Micheal E Cooper (Re: [tlug] html editor :) IBM Homepage Builder) writes:]
>> This is something I have been having trouble with lately. I have been trying
>> out Dreamweaver for making web pages, and I used shift-jis. It works fine in
>> IE, but in netscape and explorer it is mojibake hell. I have the software
>> set for shift-jis and I use the meta line in html to designate the charset.

Can you tell us a sample URL to try this. It's rare to find a real
Japanese page I can't read.

>> I have looked at the code for other sites (sites that look okay in
>> netscape), and there are no differences. In fact, when I save the source and
>> then look at them on my machine, it is mojibake. I thought that maybe my
>> installation of netscape is bad, but the same thing happens on Opera. What
>> is more, when I use Red Hat and I go into KDE with shift-jis, many of the
>> menu items, like in the start window, are moji-bake. That was the reason I
>> switched to gnome and used iso2022-jp instead. The problem is that
>> iso-2022-jp does not seem to work for web pages.

It should. BTW, I am surprised you are going "into KDE with shift-jis".
With any *n*x system at present I'd stick with euc-jp.

>> Rather than insight on the problems above, does anyone have some insight and
>> references on the differences, uses, and compatibilities of iso-2022-jp,
>> JIS, shift-JIS, Unicode, UTF8 and 7 and so on? Which should I use for what?

You should be able to use iso-2022-jp, shift_JIS and euc-jp quite freely.
All should work equally well, except on DoCoMo, etc. keitai browsers
which are hard-wired for shift_JIS.

Jim

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