Hi,
At Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:59:40 +0200 (CEST),
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for asking them. Maybe the solution would be to remove the
> JISX0208.TXT table and instead make two tables SJIS.TXT and
> EUC-JP.TXT?
Yes. Or, JISX0208.TXT should be reconstructed so that we can build
EUC-JP table from it. (I think JISX0208 part of EUC-JP and Shift_JIS
should be the same, because JISX0208 in EUC-JP and JISX0208 in Shift_JIS
are the exactly same thing. However, this cannot be achieved without
violating Unicode's principle to discourage the usage of "fullwidth
forms". There are some people who think the Unicode's principle is
more important than EUC-JP <-> Shift_JIS compatibility.)
One harm from unuseful (but compliant to principle) conversion table
(i.e., Unicode Consortium's JISX0208.TXT) is that it caused vendors
to adopt various conversion tables (for EUC-JP). Also there are
many Shift_JIS variants (even though Unicode Consortium supplies
SJIS.TXT. I don't know why. This might be historical and political
origin). It is too late to change this situation... Thus, at least
I hope free software world will have a common consistent conversion
table....
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