Japanese Project

[koeniga]

I am going to be starting a Japanese project soon. I will be using CF 6.1 and
either SQL Server 2000 or MYSQL 4.1.

To my understanding I need to have charset=Shift_JIS in the Meta tags and the
database set to varchar. Other than that it is basic cf and database stuff.
Is there anything that I am missing?

Thanks for your responses.

[PaulH]

nope, neither of those are going to help you much w/this project. if existing
s/w, you have to make it i18n ready. otherwise design to i18n specs, no it's
not "basic cf and database stuff".

you should probably use unicode rather than a codepage encoding like that. if
you use mySQL you'll need the very latest production version. (in my opinion
sql server is a better choice for i18n work).

beyond this you'll have to ask specific questions.