Phil Daley / 2006/08/16 / 10:18 AM wrote: >I have run German and Polish WinNT
Oh, OK. My apology. I should had said multi-byte language. Oracle was probably the first utf-8 commercial product widely used everywhere. NT5 kernel and later will process data in utf-8, but Windows display engine can't. In case of Japanese, Windows used their propriety encoding, called CP932, which is built on S_JIS. After creating S_JIS, MS bought two more code pages, one from IBM and the other (I forgot) to build CP932. Now they are stuck with it. Every data on Windows needs to be transcoded between CP932 and Oracles's utf-8. Oracle Japan has a documentation on MS bug which shows a few characters will be corrupted in the process of Windows transcoding. One of them is tilde. They claims "it is unfortunate but these characters are not commonly used"(!). Oracle thinks tilde isn't common?! -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
