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by zzo38computer
50 days ago
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If they are misinterpreted, it is because the character encoding is not declared properly. I still sometimes see mojibake in Japanese web pages, but sometimes it works; if it works, it is because the character encoding is declared properly. In my opinion, EUC-JP is a generally better encoding of JIS (especially in e.g. C source code, which should not use Shift-JIS but EUC-JP is OK), but Shift-JIS does have some benefits in some circumstances (such as making a character grid with one byte per character cell; if using Shift-JIS for a Pascal source code then you should use (* *) instead of { } for comments please). |
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OR because the software is buggy, or making assumptions about encoding and not checking them (which also counts as "buggy", of course). You can declare the encoding all you like, it won't protect you against the stupid decisions that other people make in writing their software. (See Excel, for example).
Yes, if you declare your encoding properly, things should work. Most of the time. And if you're using any encoding that is not the worldwide default (which these days is UTF-8), then you definitely should declare the encoding. But you'll still occasionally hit badly-written software that doesn't even think about other encodings and doesn't handle them properly. The only defense against that situation, where you declare your encoding properly and it still doesn't work, is to just use the encoding that the software was written to expect, which is almost certainly the worldwide default.