Shiki winter kigo haiku 1896

Here is a screenshot of the Curl applet with the Masaoka Shiki winter kigo haiku from 1896 in utf-8 character encoding (Unicode.)

Some 500 haiku converted from SH-JIS encoding and indexed in a Curl browser applet.

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TEI Japanese HTML character encoding

Is there any longer a good reason for funded text initiatives on the web NOT to be UTF-8 Unicode ?

TEI at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/index/hyaku3euc.html#euc2 has a Japanese poetry page with a click-driven "swiping frames" metaphor - one of which is a view showing the kanji for haiku, waka or tanka in the char-encoding CHARSET=x-euc-jp 

Oi vey!

CHARSET=x-euc-jp ?!? No, not HTML from a server in Kyoto. The server is in VA. In collaboration with academics in PA.

There is an  anti-pattern  documented for this IT phenomenon in projects within organizations exempt from accountability and competitive pressure or managerial consequences ( and perhaps 2 or more anti-patterns specific to this web design and its survival on this academic web site.)

Ah, the peaceful, never over-loaded servers of  e-text  initiatives in academe ! Concurrent user load ? Not a worry.

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Masaoka Shiki autumn kigo haiku of 1896

Here is a screenshot of my Curl browser applet for today :

another 1,200 haiku converted to utf-8 and indexed

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