StrategyWiki talk:Guide/Main game page

No JIS?
I have to disagree on this one. I, for one, can read Japanese, and I always find it entertaining to see characters. Besides, I am very certain that StrategyWiki will grow to include import video games. To alleviate any sort of confusion that '???' renderings bring about, we could have a section similar to this and a matching template to go with it. Thoughts?  ech elon  14:20, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * I have to agree. I originally wanted to have Japanese names included in some of the guides that I started but they kept getting erased.  Because honestly, you can sometimes find out a lot more about a game by Googling the Japanese name in Japanese than in Romanji.  I propose that we add an optional Japanese name field in the infobox so that I could, for example, add パックマン to the Pac-Man guide. Procyon 14:33, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * I would support that. In fact, I would like to see more Japanese support on SW as a whole. In the future, maybe we can add a http://ja.strategywiki.org or something; they certainly love strategy guides in Japan.  ech elon  14:55, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * Just to clarify, JIS is completely different from ASCII-based Japanese. JIS (e.g. Žq•ó‚ÉŒb‚Ü‚ê‚½ƒXƒŠƒbƒs[‚Í) requires the user to change the browser's character encoding, whereas ASCII (what Procyon posted above) does not. I specifically covered JIS because it's the only Japanese character system GameFAQs allows; here there's no such rule, so it's better to use the immediately visible writing system rather than one that requires user intervention. GarrettTalk 15:34, 2 February 2007 (CST) EDIT: it also causes a second problem: if someone does switch their encoding anything on the page written using Japanese ASCII suddenly mutates--what Procyon posted above turns into 繝代ャ繧ｯ繝槭Φ. GarrettTalk 15:39, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * I believe the best thing to do is enforce UTF-8 Asian characters if JIS is a problem.  ech elon  15:45, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * So wait, I would have to change settings in my browser(s)? Also Ech, we would want the japanese mirror to be a "jp" not "ja" to reflect the commonly used abbreviation (perhaps www.strategywiki.jp?). --Notmyhandle 17:57, 2 February 2007 (CST)
 * Nope, Echelon is absolutely correct. The Japanese wikipedia is located at http://ja.wikipedia.org/, so the Japanese StrategyWiki should be located at http://ja.strategywiki.org because it matches wikipedia's naming convention.  Procyon 18:01, 2 February 2007 (CST)