Hi Anders,
Yes and no.
Unfortunatelly, LAMS 1.0.x does not support other character sets in full. As you well point out, there are some tool like Noticeboard that support it, but most of the rest won't.
Now, LAMS 1.1 *does* come with full support for UTF-8 (Unicode), which will allow it to take/display all characters including double-byte characters like Japanese or Chinese.
So, yes, you'll have to wait for 1.1 for UTF-8 support.
Good news is: LAMS 1.1 is not so far from now. By June we shall have a beta version with most tools for testing. More on the next milestones shortly.
Thanks,
Ernie
Posted by Ernie Ghiglione