Ya done good Jon!

I was going to take the easy way out and quiz a couple of clients in Japan--
assuming I could find a monment in the middle of packing for this move--
aaaarrrghh!

:)


>
>Yes, it is Japanese, but not the most common encodings. It is not EUC-JP
nor
>Shift-JIS. It is "JIS" or ISO-2022-JP. But additionally it has a lot of
>Katakana/Hiragana and not so much Kanji. This can also make it look
different.
>
>Just use Netscape on RedHat Linux 6.0 and you'd see it all by selecting
>"Japanese (Auto-Detect)". For those of you on Windows, you have to first
have
>Unicode or Japanese font installed and then change the Netscape preferences
to
>use that font for Japanese.
>
>
>Now, if you love a good mystery, here is how to solve this one. First, get
a
>Japanese font setup and working. You can test it out by hitting my favorite
>test site:  http://www.sanrio.co.jp/ (I'm pretty sure they'll be around for
a
>while)
>
>Next, go to the mysery site. Now that you are there, by the URL you guess
it's
>Japanese. First try viewing using "Japanese (EUC-JP)". Nope. No dice. Now
try
>"Japanese (Shift-JIS). Nope. Not a Japanese MS Windows kinda site :-).  Now
try
>"Japanese (Auto-Detect). Bingo! So it's Japanese, but not one of those two
>encodings. That leaves "JIS"/ISO-2022-JP.
>
>
>--
>"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
>But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
>
>
>

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