Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> How about new encodings such as EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3, Shift_JISX0213,
>> and GB18030 ?
Is there a EUC-JISX0213? Presumably a 3-byte code such as is used to
represent JIS X 0212 ? And if so, why have one at all? Is anyone
ever going to use JIS X 0213 in EUC?
>> JIS X 0213-based encodings may be popular in future. For example,
>> http://www.sumomo.sakura.ne.jp/~aozora/jisx0213/
>> is an electric library. This page says that user-defined characters
>> (gaiji) were used till JIS X 0213 came to be available.
>> http://www.m17n.org/m17n2000_all_but_registration/proceedings/kawabata/jisx0213.html
>> says that Emacs supports JIS X 0213. I think users of JIS X 0213
>> is more than 50 even now and the number is increasing. (Comparable
>> to Unicode-in-plain-text users in Japan?)
JIS X 0213 will not see extensive use until it is available as part of
so-called "Shift-JIS fonts", as its codepoints have been selected to go
into the unused spaces in Shift-JIS where gaiji had previously been
placed. Most of the additional kanji in JIS X 0213 are already in
Unicode, and the ~300 that weren't join(ed) in 3.1. I strongly suspect
that Unicode usage (via Windows 2000) will overwhelm any attempts
to run on with Shift-JIS fonts containing JIS208 and JIS213. (I might
add that this is also the view of Koji Shibano, who chairs the JSC Committee
that developed JIS X 0213.)
Jim
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