Re: [RFD] Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese

Tsugikazu Shibata
2007-06-10T16:38:20Z

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:22:21 -0700, gregkh wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 10/06/07, Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> wrote:

> > > Actually, this is my first trial to post Japanese translated document
> > > and here are some points I decided ;
> > >
> > > - Character encoding is ISO-2022-JP, which is normally used for email
> > > using Japanese.
> >
> > I think there's consensus that documents in the kernel source should
> > be either plain ASCII or UTF-8 (doesn't UTF-8 work for japanese?).
>
> Is it hard to convert it to UTF-8?

NO, it's easy.

iconv -f ISO-2022-JP -t UTF-8 <infile >outfile

We are usually using ISO-2022-JP for email exchange and if anyone
would comment on my document, this is better I believe.
For documentation purpose, I agree with UTF-8.

Thanks,
Tsugikazu Shibata