On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:35:02 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> nabetaro@caldron.jp wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:47:40 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> >> That leaves only two languages that still use "legacy" encodings for the
> >> text version: Japanese (EUC-JP) and Russian (KOI8-R). I'll leave it up to
> >> their translators whether to switch or not.
> >
> > Please switch encoding from EUC-JP to UTF-8 for Japanese.
> >
> > I think that no problem on my working-copy.
>
> Well, the question is not so much if it is a problem for you or for us to
> build it, but rather what encoding most _users_ will expect...
I think that there is no unreadable user.
In fact, many encodings are used in Japan, Shift_JIS (mainly Windows user),
EUC-JP (mainly *nix user), ISO-2022-JP (for e-mail) and UTF-8.
Each OSs change from individual encoding to UTF-8 gradually.
> Anyway, I've made the switch for Japanese too.
Many thanks.
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