[SOLVED] HTML files and Japanese charset

Hello

I am working with translators on the translation of HTML English files into Japanese. The charset of the English files is iso-8859-1.
I am not too sure why but during the translation process, this charset is changed to Shift-JIS (is it because the Japanese translator has this specific charset for viewing of JP html files by default?).

Now the problem :

Can anyone tell me how to effectively change the charset in the translated JP html file to iso-2022-jp? (It needs to be this one so that readers using Lotus as mailbox can read the text okay).

So far I have tried to do it manually (Source/and then manual edit of the charset) but although it does change the name of the charset in the source, there is basically no change to the result: Firefox still cannot read the Japanese characters.

Sorry for the long message - I hope you can help!

Yikes, I would have no idea what to do. Perhaps this might be of help, though:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/chars.html

Wow that seems interesting! Will have a look at it, thank you!

hello

Well apparently a little charset converter will do the trick! Does anyone use Chilkat charset converter? Is it good and (most importantly for me ) easy to use?

Thanks

Glad you solved the problem!

Hello all,
Just in case someone looses hair on the same matter at some point in the future (who knows!!), Chilkat charset converter actually didn't solve the problem. Instead, I used CSCONV, a charset conversion tool designed by Japanese programmers who it seems kept on having the same issue than me.
It's a freeware, and can be downloaded there http://www.unibirth.com/products/CharsetConverter/

It works wonderfully well to convert Shift_JIS/EUC-JP/ISO-2022-JP/Unicode/UTF-8 < > Shift_JIS/EUC-JP/ISO-2022-JP/Unicode/UTF-8 and works at light speed

Well the instructions are in Japanese...but if anyone needs a hand I can help