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By author: Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> You have to assume that most Japanese systems will display \ as a Yen symbol,
> because they wlil.
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> Now, translation tables for CP932 on these systems could translate
> backslash and the yen symbol both to the yen symbol; that way, other
> people would see what that user saw, and that user will get yen symbols
> back. But then you break round-trip; when you go back to CP932, you
> don't know whether it was originally a backslash code or a yen code.
>
You don't know that in the first place, apparently; so what difference
does it make?
Either you have the two distinguished from the beginning or you don't.
-hpa
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