Hello Magda,
What you say is basically true, but it's fairly limited.
The differences appear in the mapping of symbols, some
vendors seem to prefer mapping 'full-width' symbols to
the official (but half-width) symbols in Unicode, others
prefer to map them to the corresponding compatibility
codepoints.
As far as I understand, the problem can be avoided by
refraining from using the full-width variants of these
symbols. (By the way, this is actually what JIS X 0208-1997
requires).
It's very important to note that neither Katakana nor
Hiragana nor Kanji are affected.
As for the problem with one-to-one, this is also true.
The problem here is the backslash/Yen symbol. It takes
a programmer (or some AI or what) to e.g. correctly
convert a C program. This problem has been perpetuated
into Unicode by Microsoft (and maybe others) by providing
separate Unicode fonts for the Japanese market. The fonts
differ in only one place: They use a Yen mark for the
backslash. That way, the Japanese never get out of their
confusion between backslash and Yen.
So in summary: The problem is there, but it is fairly local.
Regards, Martin.
At 09:03 99/06/24 -0700, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Troedsson [mailto:johan.troedsson@radio.ausys.se]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 7:31 AM
> To: 'info@unicode.org'
> Subject: Question about Shift_JIS mapping table
>
>
> Hello,
>
> just want to verify whether a rumour is true or not. I've heard that there
> in practice exist a number of different mapping tables (four?) between
> shift_jis and unicode. Secondly, I've heard that not all the characters used
> in Japan in the shift_jis character encoding can be mapped on unicode, or
> there is at least no one-on-one mapping. Could you please help me on this
> matter?
>
> /regards Johan Troedsson
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