Strategies for two-byte char systems

[George Wade]

>  > Doesn't sound like it'll do what I need, which is to display Japanese
>>  characters and to convert them to HTML.
>
>I know for sure that on the stack itself Japanese characters are
>displayable -- assuming, of course, a Japanese-capable OS with Japanese
>font(s). But MC itself, for example in the property windows for
>font-selection or a text-field, will display characters as "goobledegook".
>And editing Japanese text thru a stack is possible but a mess ... hence mine
>and some others' past request that MC support two-byte chars, but which
>unfortunately is not at the top of the feature request list... :-(
>
>About converting to HTML, I guess it would work, but I don't really know.

At this point you would need to check the character set (tag) 
embedded in the exported html file:- if it is any western set number 
you will get garbage; on editing it to your required character set 
the file should magically display in Chinese / Japanese, etc.

George Wade,
Kochi, Japan

>
>BTW, this topic's been raised before, and IMO was covered well by Dave
>Cragg. Search the archives for his name -- or perhaps he'll answer you
>himself any moment now :-)
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Nicolas R Cueto
>Nagoya, Japan

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