Hi, I am running a JAVA program on Japanese Windows 2000 system, looking at the Unicode conversion of the following four characters from Shift-JIS encoding (MS-CP932) in both JRE 1.3.1 and JRE 1.4.1, and noticed some interesting changes:
In JRE 1.3.1, it converts them just same as what Microsoft does: 0x815C (―) -> U+2015 (―) Horizontal Bar 0x8160 (～) -> U+FF5E (～) Full-width Tilde 0x8161 (∥) -> U+2225 (∥) Parallel To 0x817C (－) -> U+FF0D (－) Full-width Hyphen In JRE 1.4.1, it converts them just same as what ICU does: 0x815C (―) -> U+2014 (�) EM Dash 0x8160 (～) -> U+301C (〜) Wave Dash 0x8161 (∥) -> U+2016 (‖) Double Vertical Line 0x817C (－) -> U+2212 (−) Minus Sign Obviously, this cause some backward compatibility & forward migration issues here. I have the exactly same program. Those four Japanese characters used to work perfectly when we use the older JRE version 1.3.1. However, now we move up to JRE 1.4.1, three of the four charcters are displayed differently, and one which is the "Double vertical line" becomes a dot on the UI because U+2016 is not defined in Japanese TrueType font "MS Gothic". Can someone help please? Why SUN made such changes? To me, it's hard to believe this is just a mistake in the new mapping table, if SUN does have some good reasons, they may also require some code changes, would this be true? Where and how should I change my code? Thanks. Jane __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
