Nathan Scott
25th September 2003, 22:05
Hi all,
I've got a question about what the most "universal" type of Japanese character encoding is for web pages. There are a number of browser options, which include:
Shift-JIS
EUC-JP
ISO-2022-JP
Unicode (UTF-8)
Unicode (UTF-7)
Japanese (Auto-Select)
You can also set (in Netscape) an auto-detect for Japanese, which seems to help.
I assume that Unicode refers to a "universal coding" that your browser will detect automatically and correctly (if you choose the wrong encoding, you may get the wrong kanji). This seems like it may be ideal, but how do you write in "Unicode"?
I use KanjiKit 97 to enter kanji, and can only figure out how to enter it in Shift-JIS coding, which seems to be a pretty safe setting for browsing Japanese in general.
To clarify, I'm not having too much trouble viewing Japanese pages, but I'm trying to enter kanji on some of my own web pages that I would like to pop up correctly automatically. As an example, on the following page I'm re-working, I simply stated at the top how to best view the page:
http://www.tsuki-kage.com/shugyo.html
Any suggestions on what the best way is to view and input kanji to internet applications (aside from .jpg)?
Any suggestions appreciated,
I've got a question about what the most "universal" type of Japanese character encoding is for web pages. There are a number of browser options, which include:
Shift-JIS
EUC-JP
ISO-2022-JP
Unicode (UTF-8)
Unicode (UTF-7)
Japanese (Auto-Select)
You can also set (in Netscape) an auto-detect for Japanese, which seems to help.
I assume that Unicode refers to a "universal coding" that your browser will detect automatically and correctly (if you choose the wrong encoding, you may get the wrong kanji). This seems like it may be ideal, but how do you write in "Unicode"?
I use KanjiKit 97 to enter kanji, and can only figure out how to enter it in Shift-JIS coding, which seems to be a pretty safe setting for browsing Japanese in general.
To clarify, I'm not having too much trouble viewing Japanese pages, but I'm trying to enter kanji on some of my own web pages that I would like to pop up correctly automatically. As an example, on the following page I'm re-working, I simply stated at the top how to best view the page:
http://www.tsuki-kage.com/shugyo.html
Any suggestions on what the best way is to view and input kanji to internet applications (aside from .jpg)?
Any suggestions appreciated,