Re: [ot] chinese web pages encoding

Kenneth is right, it should be UTF 8.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wong" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [blug-general] [ot] chinese web pages encoding


> Why not do it in unicode (UTF-8) and if there's demand for the GB2312
> version, use a converter and create a GB2312 version? There should be a
> converter from UTF-8 to GB2312, since there are converters from BIG5 to
> GB2312 and so forth.
>
> Almost all new systems these days seem to handle UTF-8 with no major
> hiccups, so I would go with the wave of the future.
>
> Course, I'm not a chinese expert, so take anything I say with a pinch of
> salt. :)
>
> --
> Kenneth Wong
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> On Friday 16 April 2004 14:14, Chris Drumgoole wrote:
> > My opinion is to do everything in UTF-8 - I think it is the
> > responsible thing to do, otherwise, if you do GB2312, then it just
> > adds to the number of sites that use GB2312, thus adding to the
> > annoying seperate charset/encoding problem we encounter everyday. THe
> > more sites that use UTF-8 exclusively will eventually make an impact
> > on those that don't... At least, that is my thought - too ideal?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Paiato Matteo wrote:
> > > Spaghetti learning already use a multilanguage system like PHPNUKE,
> > > when the language is selected the sript include all labels (labels
> > > are listed in saparate .php files) and the indication of the
> > > encoding. Once the language is selected maybe some pages contain
> > > part of the interface (in chinese) end other contents (maybe mixed
> > > english and Chinese).
> > > This to give more information
> > > Matteo
> > >
> > > On Apr 16, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Richard Ford wrote:
> > >> But if you want to change to other langauges later... why not
> > >> implement a unicode system now....?
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 13:05, Colin Zhu wrote:
> > >>> GB2312 is prefered, according to my experience. Chinese users
> > >>> will not need
> > >>> to change the encoding by hand then.
> > >>>
> > >>> Paiato Matteo wrote:
> > >>>> sorry for the non-linux related question.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm willing to start the localization of Spaghettilearning
> > >>>> (e-learning italian CMS) in chinese, which encoding is better to
> > >>>> use GB2312, UTF-8,
> > >>>> Unicode or ...?
> > >>>> thank for the advise!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Ciao
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Matteo
> > >>>>
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