Hi, At Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:52:14 +1100 (EST), Jim Breen wrote:
> 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. Sure. I don't think JIS X 0213 has high proprity in luit's development. However, it is true that there are a few pages which uses JIS X 0213 characters via non-Unicode encodings. Electronization of books which have already published as a ordinary paper books. I think you can easily find the web page using google or other search engines. And, there exist JIS X 0213 fonts available. You can download it from a famous freeware/shareware site "vector" (http://www.vector.co.jp). If you are using Debian, install xfonts-kappa20 and you can use JIS X 0213 fonts. > 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. It is wrong. JIS X 0213 is a replacement of JIS X 0208. Strictly speaking, it is not a superset of JIS X 0208, because unification rule has changed for dozens of characters. For example, do you know there are two versions of glyph of "高" (height)? They are so-lcalled "Hashigo-taka" and "Kuchi-taka". These two characters are unified (and thus share one codepoint) in JIS X 0208 but they are treated as different characters (and thus have separate codepoints) in JIS X 0213. Except for such a few tens of characters, JIS X 0213 includes all characters of JIS X 0208. Thus, JIS X 0213 is virtually a superset of JIS X 0208. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
