Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding

["Brett Robson" <brett@example.com>]

It *was* very bad. I fired photon torpedeos at them until they fixed it.

It was out sourced to a local company and had a Japanese charset (obviously
the default) on all pages. Some of the "Japanese characters" were actually
mistakes, double byte characters that should have been plain ASCII. I
pointed out that they really shouldn't put Japanese on an English page.

But the worst point was the shocking English. It was obvious none of the
Australian staff had ever looked at it. The webmaster I emailed seemed to
think it wasn't that bad, but based on his language he wouldn't know.

I'm not a language snob by any means, but a site that has an "Official
Australian Government Site" stamp on the front page needs to maintain some
standards.

Brett





----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Breen" <jwb@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding


> [Brett Robson (Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding) writes:]
> >> One of the worst examples of this was the English version of the
Australian
> >> Embassy in Tokyo web site, the English pages had Japanese charset
defined
> >> and Japanese characters on the pages.
>
> Huh? You mean: http://www.australia.or.jp/english/ ?
> It has: "charset=ISO-8859-1"
>
> Anyway, what wrong with "Japanese charset defined and Japanese
> characters on the pages". That's the correct way!
>
> Jim
>
>
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