For more info on how conversion tables between JIS 208 and
Unicode differ slightly on various systems, you might want
to have a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/japanese-xml/.

Regards,   Martin.

At 23:54 01/10/26 +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I found a problem on JIS X 0208 -> Unicode table in libX11
>(xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv/jisx0208.h).
>
>The reverse solidus in JIS X 0208 is mapped into U+005C
>in the above file.  Since JIS X 0208 is almost always used
>with combined with ASCII, it causes a conflict between
>reverse solidus in JIS X 0208 and ASCII.
>
>This is why GNU libc maps reverse solidus in JIS X 0208
>into U+FF3C (FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS).  Thus, the current
>situation of libX11 causes a conflict of mapping tables
>between GNU libc and XFree86.
>
>I found this bug when I input fullwidth reverse solidus
>using Japanese XIM and XTerm under UTF-8 locale.
>
>I remember Markus Kuhn admited this is a problem, though I
>cannot show the mail now....
>
>Here is a patch.  I think this patch is a bugfix and I hope
>this 'bug' is 'fix'ed soon.
>
>--- jisx0208.h  Sat Aug 11 00:43:39 2001
>+++ jisx0208.h.new      Fri Oct 26 23:48:33 2001
>@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>    0x3000, 0x3001, 0x3002, 0xff0c, 0xff0e, 0x30fb, 0xff1a, 0xff1b,
>    0xff1f, 0xff01, 0x309b, 0x309c, 0x00b4, 0xff40, 0x00a8, 0xff3e,
>    0xffe3, 0xff3f, 0x30fd, 0x30fe, 0x309d, 0x309e, 0x3003, 0x4edd,
>-  0x3005, 0x3006, 0x3007, 0x30fc, 0x2015, 0x2010, 0xff0f, 0x005c,
>+  0x3005, 0x3006, 0x3007, 0x30fc, 0x2015, 0x2010, 0xff0f, 0xff3c,
>    0x301c, 0x2016, 0xff5c, 0x2026, 0x2025, 0x2018, 0x2019, 0x201c,
>    0x201d, 0xff08, 0xff09, 0x3014, 0x3015, 0xff3b, 0xff3d, 0xff5b,
>    0xff5d, 0x3008, 0x3009, 0x300a, 0x300b, 0x300c, 0x300d, 0x300e,
>
>---
>Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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