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This is about display, not encoding. Using EUC-JP to store text doesn't guarantee that it will be rendered with a Japanese font.

• lmm 5y ago
  In practice it does, if it will be rendered at all. Elsewhere on this very page you can find people suggesting storing the display locale alongside the unicode string, which is really the only way to solve this problem in the general case - but in that case you might as well store pairs of byte sequence and encoding, there's not much difference between that and unicode string and locale.
  • kalleboo 5y ago
    Aren't the modern text display APIs of the most popular OSes all Unicode-based now? It seems likely that they will convert to Unicode when told to display a string in a different codepage and replace the locale info with the default Unicode behavior (of basing it on the user locale)
  • yorwba 5y ago
    > In practice it does, if it will be rendered at all. Seems like you're right, at least as far as Firefox is concerned. Testing the data links below, it appears to guess the default language based on the encoding used. Neat! data:text/html;charset=euc-jp;base64,PHA+RGVmYXVsdDogv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImphIj5sYW5nPSJqYSIgv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImtvIj5sYW5nPSJrbyIgv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWNuIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1jbiIgv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWhrIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1oayIgv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLXR3Ij5sYW5nPSJ6aC10dyIgv8/EvrOks9G5/Mb+PC9wPgoK data:text/html;charset=euc-kr;base64,PHA+RGVmYXVsdDog7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImphIj5sYW5nPSJqYSIg7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImtvIj5sYW5nPSJrbyIg7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWNuIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1jbiIg7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWhrIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1oayIg7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLXR3Ij5sYW5nPSJ6aC10dyIg7NPywfqtysfN6ez9PC9wPgoK data:text/html;charset=gb2312;base64,PHA+RGVmYXVsdDogyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImphIj5sYW5nPSJqYSIgyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImtvIj5sYW5nPSJrbyIgyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWNuIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1jbiIgyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWhrIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1oayIgyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLXR3Ij5sYW5nPSJ6aC10dyIgyNDWsbqjvce5x8jrPC9wPgoK data:text/html;charset=big5;base64,PHA+RGVmYXVsdDogpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImphIj5sYW5nPSJqYSIgpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9ImtvIj5sYW5nPSJrbyIgpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWNuIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1jbiIgpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLWhrIj5sYW5nPSJ6aC1oayIgpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPjxwIGxhbmc9InpoLXR3Ij5sYW5nPSJ6aC10dyIgpGKqva78qKSwqaRKPC9wPgoK