On 25/07/2005, at 2.14, Sean Schertell wrote:
Unfortunately, UTF-8 doesn't work for Japanese in some cases. For example Mac IE (still used by all those poor souls still stuck on OS 9), shows lots of wacky characters.
Sorry to sound skeptical, but is that just a subset of the japanese characters, which it shows as wacky?
I tried launching Internet Explorer 5.2 (which is on my Panther partition) and went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language -- this page is in UTF-8 and contain several japanese characters, and although I don't read japanese, it does look alright to me.
Remember, Japan is a huge (possibly #2) market for the web so this isn't some obscure out in left field feature ;-)
I'm going to add better/actual international support to TM eventually. Though currently it looks a little like it'll be a 1.4- thing (but 1.2 and 1.3 should take shorter time than the current 1.1).