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?
It seemed to only affect form elements -- I'm not entirely sure that maybe my meta tags or apache config weren't the problem. Interesting sidenote however: If you go to google.co.jp using Safari (or almost any other browser), it serves up a tasty helping of UTF-8 encoded Japanese. But if you go to the same url using Mac IE, it uses Shift- JIS. Weird, huh?
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.
Interesting. It look okay to me too. Even the form buttons.
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).
That would be great! Even if I'm able to make a clean break and start all new projects as UTF-8, I'll still need my code editor not to barf on the tons and tons of existing Shift-JIS and EUC-JP docs that I may need to work on someday.
Thanks! Sean
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