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		DarkShikari on March 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 4 is here Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.

hasenj on March 22, 2011 [–]

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.

yuhong on March 22, 2011 | [–]

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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