Re: [tlug] Re: Japanese Word processor for linux

[Shawn <javajunkie@example.com>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:34:36 +0100, Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com> wrote:

> Shawn wrote:
>
>> >In my opinion it is a mistake to put Shift_JIS in java source.
>>
>> Depends.  Your Keitai may not like Unicode.
>
> But the keitai only sees the class files, which should contain the
> strings in utf8 regardless of the source code encoding.
>
That is what I originally though but couldn't get it to run on my handset, 
but I had been trying UTF-8 because from Sun's docs I got:

Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support the 
following character encodings.
...
UTF-8	Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format
...

but later I saw:

The required names of these encodings are supported through an alias 
mechanism:
...
UTF-8 to UTF8

and I have seen Unicode really means UTF-8 and given that under jedit 
(which is written in Java) at least UTF8 and Unicode are different 
encodings so of course you can see my confusion here and why Shift-JIS was 
just easier.

Anyway, UTF8 seems to work fine.

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Shawn

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