Unicode should be used everywhere. Unless you want trouble with stupid locales and like dealing (or having your clients deal) with a million different character sets. That's why Unicode was invented. BTW, Unicode is a superset of Shift_JIS, so anything, including the SJIS room, could work on Unicode. If you want the browser to use the MS Gothic font, just define it in CSS.
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VIPPER2005-02-22 15:21
MORE LIKE ANSI AM I RITE??????
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VIPPER2005-02-22 16:35
ANSI does not exist. That's a term Microsoft wrongly uses to designate your current locale. In western computers, "ANSI" means Windows-1252, which is an improved version of ISO-8859-1. In Japanese Windows, the local character set is the scary Shift_JIS.
If you set the board to use a local character set, and you write in some other, you'll see crap. The only way to get a universal character set and avoid all complication is to use Unicode.
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VIPPER2005-02-22 17:10
Which unicode set?
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VIPPER2005-02-22 19:26
Unicode is an unique set, but it has several versions. Although you really shouldn't be working with anything before 4.0 which is the current version, I think all of Shift_JIS was included in the very first release.