Re: [tlug] japanese encoding question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Rudolf" == Rudolf Ammann <ammann@example.com> writes:

    Rudolf> I'd like to hear a technologically educated opinion on how
    Rudolf> viable UTF-8 is for business sites.

Unless you need something not in Unicode, the sane thing to do is to
use browser negotiation and transcode on the fly.  Costs a few more
server cycles, it's true, but webservers are cheap compared to what
happens if you get your coding screwed up.

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