Re: Best encoding for a Japanese web site to deliver?

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 02/04/05

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    Maciej Katafiasz <mnews2@wp.pl> dixit:
    >On day Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:26:39 -0500 looked the Lord upon his prophet,
    >and the prophet was numbered among those called Timmy Douglas. And thus
    >spake the prophet:

    >> Maciej Katafiasz <mnews2@wp.pl> writes:
    >> The problem with using a unicode based encoding is that the unicode
    >> character set unifies Chinese characters (without specifing the
    >> language)

    That's not a problem; it was a design goal! It also unified the Latin
    alphabet without specifying the language.

    >> (without specifing the
    >> language) and people whose unicode font is a non-japanese one will
    >> likely get an ugly display (perhaps mixed fonts) of characters.

    They'll get whatever font they have installed, according to their
    locale. I get Japanese-looking glyphs.

    >Yes, that is true, and it's also partially unsolvable within unicode,
    >partially fault of Japanese themselves not giving a jack when CJK Unicode
    >mapping was being defined

    Outright myth, fostered by a few anti-Unicode Japanese people. There
    *were* Japanese people involved, and the kanji in the approved
    national standards (including the bogus ones cooked up by incompetant
    JIS committees in the past) were given the same acceptance as the Chinese,
    Taiwanese and Korean ones.

    >(we've just had quite a lengthy discussion on
    >this very topic on IRC, but I'll spare you reading the backlog).

    I hope you got the facts right. 

    -- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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