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- Subject: RE: nkf [was: RE: tlug: RE: cathedral and bazaar Japanese]
- From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:11:47 +0900 (JST)
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>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne--3Web <jq@example.com> writes: jb> That whole thing with Netscrape not being able to read that jb> page is rather disappointing. Apparently, "Japanese jb> auto-detect" in the Linux version of Communicator means jb> something less than that in reality. The versions of 100% "Japanese autodetect" is impossible with less than artificial intelligence. There are some heuristics that help, but there is no purely arithmetical way to distinguish EUC-JP from SJIS with 100% reliability. You basically have to be able to look at the text and realize it's nonsense. (That's harder than you think, because it would invariably decide that Windows Help is not written in any known character set :-) The content-type of "x-euc-jp" is even less reliable. That "x-" means that this is a private encoding, not registered with the IANA. (It is not possible to register an "x-" character set with the IANA by definition.) Few MIME implementations understand it, and I don't know if there is a public registration of a proper MIME type. The right thing to do with localized Japanese pages is to use the ISO-2022-JP encoding with a MIME Content-Type of ISO-2022-JP; essentially all MIME implementations can handle that. Alternatively, you can use UTF-[78]. I forget what the MIME type is, though I know it's registered. BTW, HotJava is probably fine if you have infinite RAM; it may be better now, too, but when I tried it a year ago, after an hour of browsing it had a footprint of 100MB. Stomp! Stomp! --------------------------------------------------------------- Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30 Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code --------------------------------------------------------------- a word from the sponsor: TWICS - Japan's First Public-Access Internet System www.twics.com info@example.com Tel:03-3351-5977 Fax:03-3353-6096
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