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Re:Firefox 4 is here by DarkShikari on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:46AM (#2354589)
Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.
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Re:Firefox 4 is here by hasenj on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:07AM (#2354701)
I visit some Japanese websites from time to time (not that I can read or anything .. just clicking on links) and don't remember having many problems with weird characters.
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Re:Firefox 4 is here by yuhong on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:55PM (#2355203)
This is because this is required if the site uses a legacy character encoding AND it is declared incorrectly or not at all.
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