Re: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-27 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2013/10/23 4:22, Asmus Freytag wrote: On 10/22/2013 11:38 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote: Hello. I know that in some Japanese encodings (JIS, EUC), \ was replaced by a ¥. On my computer, there are some Japanese fonts where the characters seems coded following Unicode, except for the \

RE: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-26 Thread Koji Ishii
Verdy Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 8:18 AM To: Koji Ishii Cc: Asmus Freytag; j...@colson.eu; unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: ¥ instead of \ For ISO 646 and all variants of ASCII (incluing JIS, HKCS, GB...) may be, but this should hve never affected the UCS. These were separate encoding standards

RE: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-24 Thread Koji Ishii
4:23 AM To: j...@colson.eu; unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: ¥ instead of \ On 10/22/2013 11:38 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote: Hello. I know that in some Japanese encodings (JIS, EUC), \ was replaced by a ¥. On my computer, there are some Japanese fonts where the characters seems coded

Re: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
compatibility. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646 -Original Message- From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:23 AM To: j...@colson.eu; unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: ¥ instead of \ On 10

Re: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-23 Thread Philippe Verdy
This should happen only with fonts that have internal non-Unicode legacy 8-bit mappings (for Windows, or national asian standards like JIS, EUC, HKCS...). But not for the Unicode mapping of the same fonts. The UCS mapping of these fonts should only map true backslash on U+00, and map the

Re: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 10/22/2013 11:38 AM, Jean-François Colson wrote: Hello. I know that in some Japanese encodings (JIS, EUC), \ was replaced by a ¥. On my computer, there are some Japanese fonts where the characters seems coded following Unicode, except for the \ which remained a ¥. Is that acceptable from

Re: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-10-22 21:38, Jean-François Colson wrote: I know that in some Japanese encodings (JIS, EUC), \ was replaced by a ¥. Some encodings indeed have “¥” U+00A5 YEN SIGN assigned to code point 0x5C, to which Unicode assigns “\” U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS. This is external to Unicode as such,