From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Shift-JIS/Unicode mapping in JAVA Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
