Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

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

>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> writes:

    Josh> No, you *can* mix English and Japanese in both UTF-8 and
    Josh> ISO-2022-JP.

In fact, the only ways to turn English into mojibake are to use
widechars or EBCDIC.  ;-)

    Josh> You just cannot mix English, Japanese, *and* Bulgarian in
    Josh> ISO-2022-JP; you can in UTF-8.

Also in ISO-2022-JP-2 (aka ISO-2022-INT).  In practice a fair number
of internationalized programs do support non-RFC1468 character sets in
ISO-2022-JP (all Emacsen do, for example).  I doubt "Becky" does,
though.

    Josh> Whether UTF-8 breaks RFCs is largely a moot point, as many
    Josh> MUAs routinely ignore RFCs or implement only the bits that
    Josh> are convenient.

That latter is true, but the point is not moot.  RFCs are the only
club we have over "Software by Beavis & Butthead", and surprisingly
often they are effective in getting the developers to do something
about it.

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