[FX.php List] Ongoing saga with Japanese text encoding

[Bob Patin]

Well, I thought I'd gotten past the problem with my client's pages  
which use this META tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=shift_jis">

Unfortunately, even though utf8_encode() takes his Japanese  
characters and encodes it for PHP, the encoding ends up garbling the  
text (which I didn't notice in the database).

So his META tag won't work with PHP, even when I take the POST data  
and use utf8_encode() to encode it.

Before Gjermund tells me *again* that they should be using the UTF-8  
encoding, I've already told my client about that, and he keeps  
insisting that some of their clients' computers won't be able to read  
their pages. Whether he's right or not I can't know since I'm not  
Japanese...

Has anyone on this list found a way around this, other than using the  
UTF-8 META tag (which my client steadfastly insists won't work for  
his clients)?

Bob Patin
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