- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:34:09 -0700
- To: Jake Harris <JMHX.DSKPO33C@dskbgw1.itg.ti.com>
- Cc: WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Jake Harris wrote: > > Is it possible to post (for example) Kanji characters using > an HTML form? Sure. Try Netscape Navigator 1.1 or greater at the URL http://home.impress.co.jp/magazine/inetmag/wwwnavi/ This is a search engine, in case you don't read Japanese. > Can you use cgi/wincgi/nsapi/isapi scripts to > read this localized input? The languages and scripts need to be able to deal with multi-byte characters. > What software would you recommend for web transactions that > contain unicode or MBCS data? Unicode isn't used very much yet (if at all), but MBCSs like Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, EUC-KR and so on are used a lot. Stateful charsets like iso-2022-jp are also used. I would recommend Netscape Navigator for the client side, and Netscape's servers on the server side. Erik
Received on Thursday, 20 June 1996 12:35:02 UTC