RE: tlug: RE: cathedral and bazaar Japanese

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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7ol : Craig Oda <craigoda@example.com>
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>that was fast.  Great.  I'm having some problems looking
>at http://abcb.ml.org/~thb/jp/cathedral-paper-jp.html  in


I duplicated the problem with Communicator 4.04 under Linux.  I was able to
view it with Lynx when I set the charset to iso-2022-jp and the encoding to
SJIS.  With then encoding set to EUC, Lynx also got bad characters for the
Japanese, but not as bad as Netscape did.  It displays correctly for
Netscape running on Windows 95-J (Netscape is localized version,
Communicator 4.04).  Oddly, on the Windows version, the page displays
correctly no matter what you set the encoding to, including English.  I
guess being a localized version, it must be designed to always display
Japanese correctly, no matter what.

Could it be the case that the page is being delivered in SJIS and
Communicator for Linux won't swallow SJIS?  Sounds crazy, I know, but
insofar as it seems pretty bug-ridden, maybe that's not as crazy as it
seems.  Since I duplicated the problem, at least we know it's consistent.

I saw on Sun's web site that they now have unsupported HotJava versions that
can be downloaded and used for other platforms (no source code, of course).
I downloaded it and am going to try to figure out where to put my JDK path
in the startup shell script, despite knowing nothing about shell scripting,
but I'm not one to let not knowing what I'm doing get in the way of giving
it a try :-)  If it works, especially if it works better than Communicator,
I'll be sure to post it here.

Jonathan

Jonathan

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