Re: [tlug] OT-Japanese in PHP

[David E <dave@???>]

One small correction to what I wrote before...

From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> on Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 19:00:07 +0900

> >>>>> "David" == David E <dave@?om> writes:
> 
>     >> The generally accepted idea is that since Shift_JIS was created
>     >> by Japanese people for Japanese people, then it handles the
>     >> Japanese language better than UTF-8, which is not true (^_^)
> 
> No, and in fact up until the most recent revision of the JIS standard,
> there were a few people in Hokkaido who could only type their
> addresses in UTF-8.
> 
>     David> I've heard the "UTF-8 messes up some characters" objection
>     David> from Japanese developers several times, though I've been
>     David> able to get an actual example of it. Urban myth, perhaps?

I meant to say that I've *never* been able to get an actual example of
Kanji that don't survive the trip through UTF8. Thus the question of
whether it might be an urban myth. 

Thanks for the explanation, Stephen. 

Dave