RE: UTF-8 problem with Japanese characters

Firstly I should point out I don't speak or read Japanese.

However it is my understanding that although utf-8 doesn't support all
Japanese characters, the few that it doesn't support are extremely rare.
So this is highly unlikely to be a problem unless you are dealing with
historical documents.

Most Japanese web sites are encoded with shift_jis. I am told that this
is the safest encoding to use for Japanese on the web at present. Our
site is currently in utf-8 and is working fine.

-- 
Eric Jarvis
webmaster@befrienders.org
www.befrienders.org
www.suicideinfo.org/japanese/

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Debmalya Biswas [SMTP:debmalya_biswas@infy.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:23 AM
> To:	www-international@w3.org
> Subject:	UTF-8 problem with Japanese characters
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to barge in your mailbox without any previous acquaintance.
> 
> I have heard from people that UTF-8 does not support all Japanese
> characters. I was doing some research on it myself and found that
> although I was able to display an HTML page containing Japanese
> characters after setting the charset to shift-jis, the same does not
> seem to be
> working for UTF-8. I am also facing similar kind of problem in Java.
> 
> 
> Any pointers to this would be welcome.
> TIA
> Regards,
> Debmalya Biswas
> 	
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 24 April 2002 11:47:02 UTC