[Mailman-Developers] Proper solution to Mailman CVS's Japanese
problems
Tokio Kikuchi
tkikuchi@is.kochi-u.ac.jp
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:28:30 +0900
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>
> I had a flash of inspiration and realized the correct way to solve
> Mailman's Japanese problems once and for all.
Well,
(snip)
> The one catch is that, as ISO-2022-JP is a 7-bit medium, it can
> contain the characters <, >, and & -- even within the non-ASCII parts
> of the text.
There are '\'s in ISO-2022-JP (and in Shift_JIS, also) and that
will make headake when you want to match or search within text.
Things are not easy and I am rather decided to teach Japanese users
to use 'standard' coding.
* Use ISO-2022-JP in mail messages
* Not Shift_JIS, nor EUC-JP
* No HTML or attachments
* Hankaku is worst of all,
because it cannot be automatically distinguished
--
Tokio