Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:13:14 +0900 From: Hiroyuki HANAI <hanai@astec.co.jp> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru Cc: hanai@FreeBSD.ORG, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/ja_JP.EUC/handbook mirrors.sgml Message-ID: <19970512161314C.hanai@astec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 9 May 1997 01:52:50 %2B0400 (MSD)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970509015013.917B-100000@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > As a practical matter, almost all the Web clients, > > which supports Japanese, can detect the Japanese character encoding > > automatically and above problem is not fatal. > > Really? Netscape 4.0b3 not do it automatically (in conformance to > standards), so I forced to switch to EUC-JP manually. > In any case automatic detection is standards violation, all pages > without charset= should be treated as 8859-1 only. Sorry, that's my failure of explanation. In Japan, almost all the people set `Japanese auto detection' mode on and several character encoding can be automatically detected. To tell the truth, Netscape Navigator and MSIE often fail :-( to detect while Lynx rarely do :-) -- HANAI Hiroyuki/Ph. D./hanai@astec.co.jp ASTEC Inc./BR Ichigaya 6 Minami-cho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162 JAPAN (81)3-5261-5974(Tel)/(81)3-5261-5980(Fax)
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