[i18n] Horde IMP in Japanese

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Takeshi Morishima <tm at onepost.net>:

>
> In message "Re: [i18n] Horde IMP in Japanese" on 2003/08/07, Thomas
>     Maadie writes:
>
>   > Do you both agree?
>
> I do not know why Shift JIS was selected as Japanese default charset
> in the first place.  It should be fine as long as gettext takes care
> of it, but historically native script langes like perl/php works
> better with EUC-JP.  At least, it caused much less trouble than Shift
> JIS for me in the past when handling other perl/php-ware.  Again, as
> long as the character set handling is properly architected and
> software is coded correctly, it probably should not matter.  If for
> logistics point of view (maybe between imp-jp and main cvs head or
> other possible Japanese support patch), using EUC-JP makes life
> easier, then we may want to consider converting Shift JIS to EUC-JP
> for everything.  I mean, if it does not really matter from the
> architecture point of view, the decision should probably be based on
> developer's productivity.

>From the developers' point of view it doesn't matter at all. I leave this
decesion to you translators. Gettext should handle both charsets fine, but
I guess you have more experience with this.

Jan.

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