By ardas on

Greetings,

I heard that UTF encoding is not very good for Japanese or Chinese languages. I don't have enough information but the question is who this problem is solved in Drupal (in case this problem really exists)?

I wonder, did anybody try to develop web sites using these languages?

Thanks in advance.

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vito_swat’s picture

vito_swat commented

The only problem I know with UTF is the size of the page as every CJK character is encoded with 3 or even 4 bytes but today I think it's not a big problem. Look at google.co.jp, it's in UTF8.
Drupal can handle UTF properly too:

ウェブ 画像 ニュース 地図 グループ more »
検索オプション
表示設定
言語ツール
ウェブ全体から検索 日本語のページを検索
広告掲載 - ビジネス ソリューション - Google について - 人材募集 - Google.com in English
Google をホームページに！

Vito

ardas’s picture

ardas commented

Thank you!
Page size is really not a problem. I hope there will be no other problems ...

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merlini’s picture

merlini commented

yes, there should be some issues in it... i still see a lot of ct chinese sites using Big5 encoding

ardas’s picture

ardas commented

Is it just a legacy issue or is there an important reason for this?
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Dmitry Kresin, ARDAS group - Web site development, Drupal services, Software development, IT outsourcing.