Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?

From: Herman Ranes (herman@iet.hist.no)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 06:19:00 EDT


Japanese UNICODE, Cf.
http://www.hist.no/~hra/eo/eo-jp.html

It is linked to two legacy encoded versions (S-JIS and EUC)

-Herman

>
> It seems to me that the Japanese prefer to use Shift-JIS or EUC-JP to
> Unicode in their Web pages. Why on earth is this?
> I have a bilingual Japanese / English page in Unicode. Are there other
> Japanese-language pages in Unicode?
>
> Is it true that Unicode can do anything that a native Japanese encoding can
> do, and do it better, with maybe the exception that hankaku katakana take
> up twice as many bytes?
>

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