On Dec 3, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Kelvin Tse wrote:
Will there be more text encoding support? Like for Japanese(Shift- JIS), Chinese(GB-2312) or Korean? I think this issue has been bought up before, but it didn't get my attention until lately.
[The most recent word I can find about this from Allan in the archives is from July: ...
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).
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I have been working on websites in different language: Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and it was a horrible experience. I had to add some pages to the existing websites, so i can't really changed all the text encoding to unicode. Also, I have been told that there are some missing characters in unicode for Japanese, so even the government won't use that.
The potential number of these characters is vast. Shift-JIS, for example, doesn't include all of them either, and does have a number of variants and ambiguities that Unicode does not have. There are political reasons one might not want to use Unicode, but not having "all" Japanese kanji probably isn't a valid one (for recent versions of Unicode, at least).
Chris