Re: [tlug] font/char set question

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 7/29/07, steven smith <sjs@example.com> wrote:
> I just had something interesting happen.  The string below
> came across in another list:
> 现代汉语词典
> It's the name of a Chinese Kanji dictionary.
>
> I searched for it on amazon.jp.  The search dialog looked ok
> when I pasted but the return was:
> "Your search " 代   典" did not match any products."
> and the dialog looked like :  代   典
> I don't know what this will look like on other browsers.
>
> What am I hitting here?  Is the font used in the
> Amazon.co.jp non utf-8 (iso2022-jp maybe)?  Do they use a
> utf-8 that doesn't support the (I'm assuming) chinese only
> kanji in this string?  Is there a translation between
> character sets going on somewhere that's dropping the
> chinese characters?

I don't work with the website at Amazon so this is just a guess, but
it could be that the Chinese locale is not supported on the
Amazon.co.jp web site.

Regards, Keith