From owner-cvs-share Mon May 12 00:11:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03930 for cvs-share-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 00:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA03921; Mon, 12 May 1997 00:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.6.12+2.5Wb7/3.4Wbeta5-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id QAA15285; Mon, 12 May 1997 16:11:48 +0900 Received: from lepton (lepton.astec.co.jp [172.20.12.27]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.5Wbeta-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id QAA09418; Mon, 12 May 1997 16:11:47 +0900 (JST) 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 From: Hiroyuki HANAI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 9 May 1997 01:52:50 +0400 (MSD)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.1 / Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19970512161314C.hanai@astec.co.jp> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:13:14 +0900 X-Dispatcher: impost version 0.99h (Apr. 2, 1997) Lines: 21 Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)