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Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody  2003-09-10 04:54


http://ja.wikipedia.org/stats/usage_200309.html

shows a lot of good stuff, but I just noticed the "search 
string" section contain many jibberish. I guess it has to 
do with the fact that people use different character 
codes (UTF-8, Shift-JIS, EUC). But I could be wrong. 

Compared with the amount of info. from other parts of 
the page, this is a small bug, and its not even about 
Mediawiki itself. But it would be nice if someone could 
takes care of this sometime in the future. 

thanks,

Tomos

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Date: 2003-09-13 21:03
Sender: SF user vibber

I guess that would require hacking on webalizer, or running
some kind of filter over the logs to try to detect the
charset of referrer string data and convert it. Ewwwww... :)

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Date: 2004-04-02 14:03
Sender: SF user gabrielwicke

There seems to have been little development recently on
webalizer. There's an option to compile it in different
languages though, and there might be a version that's
already hacked to support japanese encoding better. If you
find either an url to such a version or have a working
binary let us know. The support for per-language webalizer
bins is already in the script that produces the stats. Just
a matter of dropping a webalizer-jp bin into a dir.
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Date: 2004-05-28 13:10
Sender: nobody
Logged In: NO 

Thanks for the comments. A quick google search returns a 
few such things. There seem to be an official support for 
Japanese and many different languages available here:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/lang/

Have this been tried already? 

Tomos ([[:meta:User:Tomos]]).