> It does, if you tell it. Though my I18N work at blink.com (our
> website is fully English-Japanese bilingual), I've discovered, much
> to my pain, that a *lot* of Japanese folks out there don't bother
> to label the character set that their web page is using. This isn't
> so bad in Japan perhaps, where most people have their browsers'
> encoding set to `Japanese auto-detect,' but for those of us who
> also need ISO-8859-1 regularly (for French, in my case), it's a
> real pain.

Isn't it enough to set a 'Content-Type' HTTP header line specifying
charset, like 'text/html; charset=euc-jp'?

Masao