RE: [tlug] apache2 setup and japanese charset

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> >in my httpd.conf I have shift_jis as my defaultcharset
> >
> >add charset shift_jis is also included
> >  
> >
> How about trying Unicode? I hear it lacks a lot of kanji, but for the 
> average gaijin it should be OK, shuoldn't it?

Yeah, Unicode is pretty good. At the place where I 
work, we use Unicode for the most web applications
we have here. Don't think we ever had an issue with
not having enough kanji chars.

It makes life a lot easier as you don't have to think
about switching/converting encodings.

But you want to be careful not to use Unicode in
e-mails if you are to have mail distribution function
in your web app. Some mail clients can't handle
it well. For Japanese mail, JIS (ISO-2022-JP) is
the standard (bad idea to use sjis or euc).


-mune