Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding

["Brett Robson" <brett@example.com>]

That is fairly common amongest Japanese sites, they very rarely have the
charset defined in the html headers. As they are designed on Japanese
Windows using Internet Explorer everything works fine for the developers.

One of the worst examples of this was the English version of the Australian
Embassy in Tokyo web site, the English pages had Japanese charset defined
and Japanese characters on the pages.

Brett



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrich Plate" <plate@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] Japanese encoding


> This probably extends the scope of the original post a little (apologies
for
> the usurpation attempt): I want to build a small phpBB community accepting
> both Japanese and non-Japanese posts, but have no idea what I need to do
to
> make it consistently work right. *All* the phpBB forums I've seen so far
> have got it wrong, e.g. the official Jet Li website or the allonjapan.com
> forum, but I'd really like to avoid the mistakes they made... The most
> frequent error seems to be that the default encoding for page elements
like
> the arrows in the forum tree hierarchy is quite obviously
> iso-8859-something, but posts are in Shift-JIS. When looking at pages like
> http://forum.allonjapan.com/viewforum.php?forum=6, for example,
> autodetection in IE on Windows thinks it's Shift-JIS,
> Mozilla/Konqueror/Galeon on Linux believe it's Western, meaning none of
them
> get it more than partly right...
>
> Clues anyone?
> Ulrich Plate
>
>
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