I have noticed a lot of Japanese sites use shift-jis, why is this?
Because it's like ASCII for Japanese characters.
It seems the number of utf-8 encoded Japanese and English sites are increasing as defaults for some (or most?) blog systems / hosting services are utf-8.
- kida
On 2004/02/23, at 4:08, steve wrote:
Hello,
To create a multilingual webiste would it be best to use UFT8 encoding? I have noticed a lot of Japanese sites use shift-jis, why is this? Do all browsers support unicode now?
Thank you for your help,
Steve.
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