* Paul Eggert: > By the way, how important is it to support awful encodings like > shift-JIS that contain bytes that look like '\'? If we don't have to > support these encodings any more, things get a bit easier. (Asking for > a friend. :-)
There is a Shift-JIS variant which is ASCII-transparent (Windows-31J, it's also specified by WhatWG/HTML5), so from a glibc point of view, it would be just an ordinary charset like any other. But feedback we have received is that the users who want Shift-JIS really want the original thing. We do not presently support either variant downstream, but one potential way forward would be to turn Windows-31J into a fully supported glibc charset with a corresponding ja_JP locale (which would imply downstream support as well), and just hope that it displaces the original Shift-JIS in the future. Thanks, Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael O'Neill
