Re: Japanese and Web pages

[darren@example.com (Darren Cook)]

>If it's only partly mojibake, then maybe Netscape got confused about
>embedded angle brackets.  I don't think Netscape is very smart about
>them; I know that paragraphs <P> in Japanese text occasionally get
>munged and I've seen Japanese text simply disappear when "<" is part
>of a JISX-0208 character.  I believe that this is due to the DTD for
>HTML which probably did not consider Japanese carefully.

This is very possible. The < and > characters (ascii codes 60 and 62)
are outside the second byte code ranges for Shift-JIS, so the problem
would not turn up for all the Windows users.

So, maybe you could use jconv to convert all documents to SJIS,
(and use the command line options explicitly, in case it has got
EUC and SJIS confused).


Darren

-----------------------------------------------------------------
a word from the sponsor will appear below
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The TLUG mailing list is proudly sponsored by TWICS - Japan's First
Public-Access Internet System.  Now offering 20,000 yen/year flat
rate Internet access with no time charges.  Full line of corporate
Internet and intranet products are available.   info@example.com
Tel: 03-3351-5977   Fax: 03-3353-6096