Re: [PLUG] Japanese Keyboard, was UTF-8, Second Opinion

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:53:32AM -0500, Paul wrote:
> setting the encoding to EUC-JP.  If it were composed in UTF-8 I would 
> have been able to view both English and Japanese without changing the 
> encoding.

Only if your terminal supported UTF-8.

> I believe my messages go out in UTF-8 now that that is my default.  It 
> used to be ISO-8859-1.  Both send plain-text.  Both contain the standard 
> ASCII characters.

True. As it happens, Unicode had enough clue to overlap English
characters at the same addresses. That doesn't mean that a message
composed in UTF-8 will look right for someone viewing it in EUC-JP,
and if they don't have Unicode libraries installed, they're screwed.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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