Re: ASCII and JIS X 0201 Roman - the backslash problem

Hi,

At Fri, 10 May 2002 15:33:13 -0400,
Glenn Maynard wrote:

> Out of curiosity, Tomohiro, is full-width Yen commonly used?  (I'd guess 円
> would be a more obvious choice for full-width.)

If you mean Unicode U+FFE5 by "full-width Yen", I cannot give an
answer because Unicode itself is not yet very popular in Japan.
However, full-width Yen in Shift_JIS and EUC-JP, i.e., 0x216F in
JIS X 0208, is widely used in Japan.

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