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Old 08-12-2006, 06:06 PM
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Re: IDN Site building

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Originally Posted by seamo
Haven't found which is better yet, but only similar problem I have with SuperEdi as with Textpad.

Different options are available for Japanese encoding, but I cannot paste Japanese straight into document. it is returned as 'llllll'

Any ideas why domainguru?
It's mainly a matter of matching encodings. When you paste text into a program, the program doesn't "know" what encoding it is. So the program should be set to be the same encoding as the text you are pasting in. Then, theoretically, and if you have the correct fonts installed for the encoding, everything should be ok.

There may also be issues caused by "copying/pasting" messing around with the characters i.e. the clipboard might attempt to "interpret" the characters (wrongly) and hence mess around when it shouldn't be doing.

Like bramiozo suggests, the best way to work is in a standard format i.e. UTF-8. That way, you can store and display text in all languages stored in the Unicode standard.

This is a great intro to Unicode / text encoding (thanks Jase)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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