Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

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

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:30:27 +0900
"Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks! I think having switched the settings over to UTF-8 for my e-mail 
> has also solved the bakemoji problem people were having with my e-mail. 
> Just to test - does this display correctly?:
> 
> 縺薙ｌ縺ッ譌・譛ャ隱槭↑縺ョ縺倥ｃ䰗�
> 

No, not on my client. Using UTF for for Japanese email breaches RFCs,
you are supposed to use 2022-JP. Now many people will tell you that it
doesn't matter and there may be good reason to use it (eg mixing
Japanese with non-English languages), but if you are sending Japanese
text then you are risking that the receiver can't read it. 

Try sending Japanese UTF email to a mobile phone, not sure what will
happen.

Brett




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