If you want to duplicate the IE mappings, you could write a quick little program to see what the COM APIs map the PUA SJIS characters to.
Mark ————— Πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα — Ὁμήρου Μαργίτῃ [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Marius Garshol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 06:51 Subject: Re: Fun with UDCs in Shift-JIS > > * David Hopwood > | > | Presumably the "NT 4.0" mapping at <http://www.autumn.org/etc/unidif.html> > | (in Japanese, but the table is readable by non-Japanese-speakers). > | > | That mapping is a superset of CP932 > | (<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT>), > | with additional mappings from 0xF040..0xF9FC to U+E000..E757, from > | 0x80 to U+0080 (why?), and from the other 4 reserved single-byte codes > | to U+F8F0..F8F3. > > Hmmmm. It seems like this table has a little more information > (provided I interpret it correctly). > > | I wouldn't know, but the private use codes can't be assumed to mean > | anything in particular, regardless of what charset they start out as. > | Such pages are broken, and should be using NCRs or images instead. > > OK, so it seems like this characters have no fixed interpretation. > > I did a little test, by generating a Shift-JIS test page and viewing > it in MSIE. It turns out that MSIE supports only the 0xFA40 - 0xFC4B > range, and not the rest of the 0xF0F0 - 0xFCFC range, which means that > the tables I've already been referred to contain all the information I > need. > > An interesting question is whether this range is particular to > Shift-JIS, or whether these characters should be considered to have > been added to JIS 0208, so that EUC-JP and ISO 2022-JP also can use > them. Does anyone know? > > --Lars M. > > >
