From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-12-22T13:40:15+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT][job] translator/etc? On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:15:11 +0900, ume@lightsider.com wrote: > What system of encoding for the Japanese, do you know? Or does that not > matter? (if you're using Microsoft IME or whatever for keyboard input... > well, I'm interested in the technical details, if you're trying to get > Ruwiki to work well with Japanese as a Wiki.) The English, Spanish, and German variants have been done with variants of ISO-8859. There is a specific encoding value at the head of the messages file. This isn't completely safe, as it will force that encoding on the entire page, not just the labeled portions -- so I need to investigate what can be done for that. Thus, it should be pretty easy. However, given that it's a web app with input, Ruwiki will work far better with UTF-8 (I know that's not a popular choice for Japanese) and I will be happy to make necessary changes to the Ruwiki code in the new year (I am finishing up a quick project before going on a short vacation) to properly and fully support Ruwiki with Japanese. I don't necessarily expect a lot of Ruwiki users in Japan -- both tDiary and hiki appear to be very popular there -- but I do want this to be a fully multilingual and internationalized Wiki. -austin >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:43:22 +0900, ume@lightsider.com >> wrote: >>> I know this is way off topic, but I was wondering if anyone >>> associated with Ruby would need a Japanese translator, for the >>> documentation or for translating materials like the Rubyist >>> Magazine (by Nihon no Ruby no Kai) and so on? >> If you're interested, Ruwiki could use translations *to* Japanese >> and verification that it works well with Japanese as a Wiki. -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca