At Fri, 28 Jun 2002 02:47:19 -0400,
$B$m!;!;!;!;(B $B$m!;!;!;(B wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the Japanese prefer to use Shift-JIS or EUC-JP to
> Unicode in their Web pages. Why on earth is this?
> I have a bilingual Japanese / English page in Unicode. Are there other
> Japanese-language pages in Unicode?
There are still many programs (including web browsers and text
editors, etc.) that cannot handle Unicode text properly. So,
Shift_JIS, EUC-JP and ISO-2022-JP is preferrerd.
But in some sites, entity references are used to display characters
that are not included in legacy JIS character set.
for example:
http://piza.2ch.net/log/pcqa/kako/956/956613321.html
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/anime/prog200112.html#abenobashi
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/anime/prog200109.html#iwishyouwerehere
KUSANO Takayuki <URL:http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/>
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