Re: japanese xml

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 01:55:00 EDT


Hello David,

What you say is true, but it affects only a very small set of
codepoints, mainly symbols. For more documentation, I recommend
to read http://www.w3.org/TR/japanese-xml/.

Regards, Martin.

At 13:13 01/08/30 -0500, David Starner wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:51:24AM -0700, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote:
> > And it is worth mentioning, becuase, in fact,
> > EUC-JP (and many other encodings) are perfectly interoperable----for the
> > subset of characters that they represent.
>
>One of the big complaints I hear in trying to Unicodize Linux is that
>that EUC-JP, Shift-JIS, and CP932 are all encodings that include
>JIS X 0208; but they all map the JIS X 0208 portion differently.
>So EUC-JP <-> Shift-JIS produces different results than EUC-JP <->
>Unicode <-> Shift-JIS. That's not prefectly interoperable.
>
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