Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[Ulrich Plate (Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding) writes:]
>> Jim Breen wrote:
>> > Er, no. My Mozilla says it's Shift_JIS too. (My browser sits in
>> > Japanese autodetect mode.
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that I had not set mine to autodetect. You're
>> right, but that doesn't make the four little '>' in the line that indicates
>> the level on the forum tree get displayed right. 

And what code are they in? 

>> Any browser autodetecting
>> Shift-JIS believes they're Shift-JIS, too, and displays two katakana sa
>> instead. That's the kind of chaotic behaviour I'd like to avoid while still
>> accepting input from Japanese browsers. 

I don't know what the "four little '>'" are, but I guess they are
in ISO-8859-1?  If so, state that as the code of the page, and the 
autodetect is overridden.

>> I was hoping to be able to create
>> the entire site with an encoding of charset=utf-8, but I'm not even sure
>> whether that's feasible, let alone advisable to begin with. To tell you the
>> whole truth, I've just started working with phpBB yesterday, let me come
>> back and moan some more once I've managed to know a little more about it...

I think it's a wee bit early for pure UTF8 pages to be servicable. I'm
about to make UTF8 an option on my WWWJDIC server, mainly so that the
French and German can get displayed mixed with the Japanese without too
much mucking around. At present I'm putting in é etc.

Jim

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