"James A. Crippen" wrote:
> 
> Problem.  Given the unhelpful names of most of the CMaps, eg
> 
>   78-RKSJ-H
>   Add-H
>   Hankaku
>   Hiragana

See page 283 of Ken Lunde's CJKV Information Processing, 1st edition.

> etc, and given that the CMap files don't contain any sort of helpful
> comments, how do I work out the mappings from, say the XLFD ISO10646-1
> encoding name to one of the UCS2 or UTF8 CMaps?  For example, there
> are nine CMaps with 'UCS2' or 'UTF8' in them, at least one of which I
> assume should be equated with ISO10646-1.
> 
>   UniJIS-UCS2-H     UniJIS-UCS2-V  UniJISPro-UCS2-HW-V
>   UniJIS-UCS2-HW-H  UniJIS-UTF8-H  UniJISPro-UCS2-V
>   UniJIS-UCS2-HW-V  UniJIS-UTF8-V  UniJISPro-UTF8-V
> 
> But which one of these?  All of them?  I can't tell what the Hs, Vs,
> and Ws mean

H and V at the end means horizontal and vertical. Yes, Japanese glyphs
change depending on horizontal or vertical layout. The HW may mean
half-width, for mixing narrow Katakana with ASCII characters, all of the
same width, also known as hankaku.

> nor do I know the difference between UniJIS and UniJISPro.

I don't know either. Have you contacted Ken Lunde himself?

> And I know that UCS2 is the standard Unicode format, but
> UTF8 is the 8-bit clean transfer format for Unicode, so which one do I
> want for ISO10646-1?  Both?  Help!

I'd go with UCS2, since that is the same as ISO10646-1.

> And I have no clue what CMaps map to the JIS 02xx standards.  Maybe
> Adobe has some documentation on this?

Ken Lunde's book has a lot of info about this. RKSJ, Add and Hiragana
are probably the wrong ones to use for X's JIS X 02xx. Hankaku may match
JIS X 0201 exactly. What are the other names available?

Erik
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