Will Asian search engines take Unicode char?

User in localized OS

[powerpuff]

Hi,

I have a question about submitting META keywords content for Asian search engine. My charset is UTF-8, the content of the keywords are Asian languages Japanese, Chinese... in Unicode. Will the Asian search engine take these UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters, when a user in localized OS and type in characters in s-jis or big-5; can they find my website?

Do I need to have separate pages encoded in s-jis, big-5 etc. just to make the search engine friendly?

Thanks for the advice

John

[Eric_Jarvis]

seems to vary between search engines...in the medium term I'm aiming to have both shift_jis and utf-8 for Japanese and big5, GB and utf-8 for Chinese

[bill]

There were some issues with Unicode support in older Japanese Netscape browsers if memory serves...that was one reason I did all my Japanese sites in a JIS variant, and my Chinese site in GB. I really don't see Unicode being used on the web much in Japan.

Unicode is a great thing for a multilingual web, but I don't see full support quite yet. I would advise that your site at least be in a common native encoding and then add a Unicode second if you find it necessary.