Re: Japanese encoding

<HCHIKA@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
My question is why
IE can't display my website (www.dallajapa.com) properly unless the
encoding is set to Unicode.

Because it has been written, or more accurately saved, in Unicode.

I want my web pages to be viewed in Japanese (auto-select) like most Japanese websites, for instance, yahoo.co.jp.

Japanese (auto-select) isn't an encoding. Japanese (auto-select) is an
Internet Explorer specific menu item that (in theory) automatically selects the right _Japanese_ encoding form a selection of possible
_Japanese_ encodings. Unicode is not a Japanese encoding.

yahoo.co.jp for example has <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=euc-jp">
up the top. Of course that's only any use if the content actually _is_ in
Japanese (EUC) (as IE would call it).

I'm using English Windows XP, my website is hosted by an American company(brinkster.com), I upload blank html files to my website and after they are uploaded, I develop (wright HTML codes manually) each page on server side.

At some point pages you've written have to be saved. At that point, whatever program or utility you are using to write them is saving them in unicode (UTF-8). How (and whether) you can tell that program /
utility to save in a different encoding is a complete mystery to anybody
who doesn't know what program / utility you are writing them in.
.

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