Hi, From: Pied Axioplase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: multi-language debian Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:30:55 +0000
> how comes people can input japanese in iso-8859-1 encoded pages and have > their > text readable by anyone, It is impossible. ISO-8859-1 and EUC-JP (or Shift_JIS) are different character encodings. In its definition, ISO-8859-1 text cannot include Japanese characters. If you want to mix characters from ISO-8859-1 character set and characters from JIS X 0208 character set (well, most of Japanese characters included in EUC-JP encoding), you will have to use UTF-8 or ISO-2022. Note that EUC-JP or Shift_JIS include ASCII characters. Thus, if you said "ASCII" instead of "ISO-8859-1", it is possible. I hope you understand the difference between ASCII and ISO-8859-1. If not, please tell me. > though when i do so, i have to manually select > shift_JIS in my browser in order to read the text i input before? If your file was well shown by choosing Shift_JIS, I imagine you didn't use ISO-8859-1 (above 0xa0) characters. There is a way to specify encoding of the web page. <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=foobar"> </HEAD> Please put valid encoding name for "foobar". Please download http://www.debian.org/index.ja.html and research the source. > and why when i watch the sources, thei text show up as #1234567 whereas mine > seems to be lots of > ÃâÂâOâÃÆAÆhÆÅÆAÆââÃâÂÂIâÃâ{ÅÃâÃâ or > really nice chars if > you seem what i mean... What you mean? I am afraid your mail is broken.... Please see http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/ . --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
