The software is great. Far greater that its fame would suggest. And from what I can see it is better than Movable Type, the software that I am using. But the name, "serendipity" is I believe, not good for public relations. It is not good because it has little connection with the function that this ...

Alas seredipity does not support Japanese. There is someone attempting to use it in Japan but he (a japanese guy) says that it is not compatible.
He says you are using
utf8_encode()
which is ISO-8859-1 transeferred to utf_8.

Sadnessss. I want to use this but alas I need Japanese.

I am a movable type user.
It has problems.

1) It uses perl and not php. I don't care about the merits of either but php is winning and I have software in php that I cannot do without so php has got to be the way forward for me.

2) It does not deal with Japanese well (I will come back to that on ...