Re: [tlug] OT-Japanese in PHP

[Brett <b-robson@example.com>]

Evan Monroig wrote:

>On 5/21/05, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I find it incredible that in mid-2005 this capability is "hopefully"
>>in the "near" future for *clever* browsers, and that professional web
>>admins are deliberately setting page charsets to Shift JIS.
>>    
>>
>
>You're quite right about this :). I found a book about CSS/HTML in
>japanese that was written in 2004, and inside it was advised not to
>use UTF-8 because some characters don't display well
>

If you see specific examples of this you'll know they are talking 
rubbish. If you see the Chinese version next to the Japanese version you 
can see the difference (maybe). But if the a Chinese version was being 
used in general Japanese text /no one/ would spot the difference. 

Brett