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

Hi,

At Sat, 11 May 2002 12:51:32 +0100,
Markus Kuhn wrote:

>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/
> 
> I'd be happy to add the yen/backslash issue to this list.

There are two levels of problems.

The first is that Shift_JIS itself is not an extension to
ASCII.  Shift_JIS uses JIS X 0201 Roman (i.e. Japanese variant
of ISO 646) for 0x21-0x7e part instead of ASCII.  YEN-SIGN-for-
escape-character problem occurs on this level.

The second level is Microsoft-specific problem.  CP932 (should
be an extension to Shift_JIS with several tens or hundreds of
additional Kanji and symbols) maps 0x5c (YEN SIGN) to U+005C
and Japanese version of Windows has YEN SIGN glyph at U+005C.

Suggestions to Microsoft would be on the second level.  However,
to think about solutions on the second level, we have to solve
the first level problem at first.


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