Hi,
From: "Jason R. Mastaler"
Subject: Re: Problem w/ Japanese in Templates?
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:59:11 -0600
> Other than yourself, very few I'm guessing. There aren't any other
> addresses subscribed to the TMDA lists which originate from Japan, and
> my tmdausage log shows the same.
>
> I wonder why this is. Maybe because of the very problem we are
> discussing. Perhaps this will change once it gets addressed.
I don't have a good idea either.
One thing I suspect may be related is the relatively low level of
popularity of Python in Japan (which I've heard may be changing).
Relative to Perl, Ruby, and PHP, that is [1].
When I was still doing such things, Python had pretty miserable
support for Japanese -- as a temporary quick-and-dirty hack, I ported
Perl's Kconv so it was at least possible to convert among EUC-JP <->
ISO-2022-JP <-> Shift-JIS [2].
I don't have a good idea of the status now, but as far as timing goes,
I think Python missed a big chance in Japan (not to suggest it was the
only chance) to become widely deployed.
FWIW
[1] Don't have concrete numbers so please take w/ grain of salt (-;
[2] The Python Kconv appears to have undergone significant changes by
other authors since then so I imagine it can do more and in a
better fashion.
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