Re: Interesting web site about kanji (in Japanese).

Danny Wilde <fuzakenbo@xxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>Hmm. I'm using a Japanese set-up, and I very often see web pages in English
>which come out as strange kanji, because the page doesn't bother to properly
>indicate the charset.

>Things like "I'm" and "he's" seem to get muddled, for some reason. The
>apostrophe and the next character get turned into a kanji.

That's because the the page has been written using software from
a shonky outfit in Seattle, which didn't feel obliged to use the
standard code for an apostrophe and invented its own (8-bit) code. If
your browser is locked onto Shit_JIS, it'll treat any pair of bytes
with the first having the MSB on as a double-byte character.

>Well, my version of Internet Explorer usually works perfectly well with any
>Japanese coding system, although there did seem to be some problem with
>Jim's UTF-8 pages.

Examples?

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Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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