Michael Urman wrote: > On 9/7/06, Jeff Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>From: "Paul Prescod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>1. On US English Windows, Notepad defaults to an encoding called "ANSI". >>>"ANSI" is not a real encoding at all (and certainly not one from the >> >>On Japanese Windows 2000, Notepad defaults to ANSI as it does in the English >>version. It actually writes Shift JIS though. > > ANSI is not an encoding; it is a collective name for various multibyte > encodings, each corresponding to a particular default language of the > machine. Thus ANSI corresponds to cp1252 on English and cp932 on > Japanese machines. > > As for whether cp932 is the same as Shift JIS, David and I seem to > disagree. While I lack hard data, the string '\\' round trips through > either on my box.
You may have an implementation that uses Cp932 or similar, but calls it "Shift-JIS". <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_jis> agrees with me, FWIW. Here is a pretty complete mapping table for Shift-JIS + common extensions (as opposed to Cp932): <http://wakaba-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/table/sjis-0208-1997-std.txt> although there is quite a bit of variation in mappings: <http://www.haible.de/bruno/charsets/conversion-tables/Shift_JIS.html> -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
