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Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered:

これは、いくつかの日本です

Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.

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I think you mean, "いくつかの日本語"... :)

It still doesn't make much sense, but I don't want to start Japanese lessons here...

Anyhow, some DBMS default the character encoding to ASCII (or ISO8859), not UTF, and Western developers often don't care.

I don't speak Japanese, I just went to translate.google.com and entered some text to get a sample. I can't even remember what I entered.

Oh yeah you're probably right about that. Good work. By the way, any suggestions on that phrase? I'm not a native speaker so my Japanese isn't very good.

Obviously, you entered it on a non-Japanese-speaking corkboard.

That's strange, Japanese input worked for me. (Chrome / Japanese Win7)

Maybe they fixed it?

Nevermind, you can write, just not save. I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...

That could be the case. I often don't notice encoding issues until my colleagues complain their entries in Japanese are messed up.

This is one of the first things I test when I find a site like this. Most web developers don't seem to take into consideration things like character sets and encoding, yet they are so important.

Do you know if your input method produces unicode? That could be the difference.

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