[Juliusz Chroboczek (Re: [I18n]Call for testers: luit in XFree86 CVS) writes:] >> Tomohiro KUBOTA: >> TK> I think JIS X 0213:2000 will be useful in future but it is not >> TK> popular so far. >> >> Only if users request it. The people who designed this encoding >> should have worked with their ISO 10646 national representative >> instead.
And what make you think they didn't? I'm not certain of the dates, but I think at one stage Kouji Shibano was both chairing the JIS X 0213 committee and also the ISO 10646 rep. Certainly the committes have overlapping memebreships. One of the reasons for developing what became JIS X 0213:2000 was to get several hundred kanji that had been identified in the 1996/97 review of JIS X 0208, and which were not already in ISO 10646, fast-tracked into ISO 10646/Unicode. They all became part of Unicode 3.1. Whether as Kubota-san suggests JIS X 0213 will be useful in the future remains to be seen. My own humble opinion is that there appears to be little effort being put into developing fonts around the JIS X 0208 + JIS X 0213 combination (you can't have JIS X 0213 in isolation, as it is an extension). I think the real focus is on Unicode. Jim -- Jim Breen [[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/] Computer Science & Software Engineering, Tel: +61 3 9905 3298 P.O Box 26, Monash University, Fax: +61 3 9905 5146 Clayton VIC 3800, Australia $B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$B%b%J%7%eBg3X(B -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
