Use of "charset=iso-8859-1" tag in _Japan_ Forum

[PaulTB]

This is significant mostly to the 'Nihongo Forum' section.

Since the new forum system has come up and running (only just noticed it myself) the meta tag
<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type />
is included. I have noticed a significant increase in nasty moji-bake occurences in posts.

It seems to be (pretty much) impossible to select non-Western encodings when replying to threads in advanced mode. (Quick
replies are a different matter). Japanese characters entered while in Western Encoding in Internet Explorer appear to be stored and displayed correctly (in &#NNNNN; unicode form) but I'm concerned about how well this will work with other browsers.

これはIEでWestern European (ISO)のエンコードです。

[PaulTB]

これはQuick ReplyでJapanese (JIS)のエンコードです。

[PaulTB]

これはMozilla FirebirdでWestern (ISO-8895-1)のエンコードです。

[PaulTB]

Note that smilies should be disabled when making posts including Japanese text. (Smilies are not '&#NNNN;' safe - the ; will be interpretted as part of a smiley if it happens to be before a ) etc.

[PaulTB]

Having checked around a bit;
Japanese (JIS) also known as Japanese (ISO-2022-JP) may be the only format to be corrupted due to the presense of " < > & etc in the source text.
Japanese (Shift-JIS) and Japanese (EUC) should both be safe from that particular bug.

[thomas]

Thanks for your heads-up, Paul. We will soon create new template sets for the nihongo sections featuring J-metatags. However, we're just a bit reluctant to tinker with the forum until the Gold release will be finally out.

[PaulTB]

Thanks for your heads-up, Paul. We will soon create new template sets for the nihongo sections featuring J-metatags. However, we're just a bit reluctant to tinker with the forum until the Gold release will be finally out.
I see they have now been tinkered with but didn't you read this (and other) threads?

Please don't use
<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp" http-equiv=Content-Type />
unless/until you get the &quot; damage sorted out. In fact use anything but iso-2022-jp.

As far as I know Japanese (EUC) and Japanese (Shift-JIS) should both be OK.