Re: Shift-JIS/Unicode mapping in JAVA

From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Shift-JIS/Unicode mapping in JAVA
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:56:58 +0200
Message-ID: <04dc01c325d1$06eca330$2201a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I think that the canonical name of this encoding should be used, as
>"Windows-31J" is very uncommon.

Java's naming policy of canonical encoding names is:

  "If a charset listed in the IANA Charset Registry is supported by an
  implementation of the Java platform then its canonical name must be
  the name listed in the registry."

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

I also think that "Windows-31J" isn't a good name but I can't claim it
because Microsoft decided its name:-)

> It is true that MS-CP932 is NOT Shift-JIS, even if it's mostly
> compatible with it. It was created a long time ago as an extension
> of an *old* version of the JIS standard, and includes characters
> that have been later integrated in Shift_JIS.

Note that "Shift_JIS" is one of Shift-JIS variants. See the IANA
charset registry.

Kazuhiro Kazama (kazama@xxxxxxxxxx)        NTT Network Innovation Laboratories


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