UTF8-formatted pages

Japan users requesting Shift-JIS or EUC

[louponne]

After a good deal of hair-pulling, I have managed to get a website to appear correctly in Japanese, static and dynamic parts, in UTF8.

Now I have someone asking me to enable to show "also" correctly in S-JIS and Japanese(EUC).

Is that really possible?

thanks for any help on this!

[bill]

How exactly would the site show "also" correctly in S-JIS and Japanese(EUC)? Do they propose that you make parallel versions of the site? I'm not sure that you can safely do a dynamic switch of the charsets that simply. I believe you would need to implement a converter of some sort.

I'm not sure I understand why they would want to do this if you've put all the effort into getting the site to work with UTF-8.

[David_M]

For mysql UTF8_bin, and for html display, shift-jis is all I use.
The only othe thing I use UTF8 for is my podcast, as itunes requires it.
IMHO doing a site in multiple encodings is nuts.

[louponne]

Thanks for your replies!

IMHO doing a site in multiple encodings is nuts.

My opinion *exactly*!

And since the site displays stuff out of a MySQL database that has now been converted to UTF8 (there's also a Greek version that feeds off the same database), there's no way I'm switching the display to S-JIS..

Thanks again for confirming my thoughts on this!

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I do all my output, across all (Western and Eastern) languagues in UTF-8, since surely that's what it's *for*! This also allows me mixed content.

Rgds

Damon