Best encoding for a Japanese web site to deliver?

From: bobdc (bob.ducharme_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 14:14:38 -0800

I'm sure there is plenty of discussion of this issue in Japanese; can
anyone suggest recent good resources in English on the issue of which
encoding a web server that delivers Japanese content should send to
browsers?

I get the impression that Shift JIS is still the most popular, but that
Unicode is gaining. Is there any down side to shipping Unicode, other
than problems with older browsers? How old do they have to be for
Unicode to be a problem? Does UTF-16 make more sense than UTF-8, or
vice versa?

How about EUC-JP, which I see coming from goo.ne.jp, or ISO-2022-JP,
which nttdocomo.co.jp sends to browsers?

thanks,

Bob

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