Re: Relationship between Unicode and 10646 (was: Re: Shift-JIS conversion.)

2004-11-26 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My impression is that Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 are two distinct standards, administered respectively by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, which have pledged to work together to keep the standards perfectly aligned and interoperable, because it would be destructiv

Re: Relationship between Unicode and 10646 (was: Re: Shift-JIS conversion.)

2004-11-25 Thread Mark Davis
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 13:59 Subject: Relationship between Unicode and 10646 (was: Re: Shift-JIS conversion.) > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >> UTF-8 is an encoding of the Unicode character set. > > &g

Relationship between Unicode and 10646 (was: Re: Shift-JIS conversion.)

2004-11-25 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: >> UTF-8 is an encoding of the Unicode character set. > > More exactly, UTF-8 is an encoding of the ISO/IEC 10646 character > set... > > Unicode by itself is not a character set, only an implementation of > the ISO/IEC 10646 character set... > > Of course the Unicode technic

Re: Shift-JIS conversion.

2004-11-25 Thread Philippe Verdy
- Original Message - From: Addison Phillips [wM] To: pragati ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:21 PM Subject: RE: Shift-JIS conversion. Dear Pragati, You can write your own conversion, of course. The mapping tables of Unicode->SJIS are readily availably. You sho

Re: Shift-JIS conversion.

2004-11-25 Thread Philippe Verdy
You just need a mapping table from Unicode codepoints to Shift-JIS code positions, and a very simple code point parser to translate UTF-8 into Unicode code points. You'll find a mapping table in the Unicode UCD, on its FTP server. The UTF-8 form is fully documented in the Conformance section

RE: Shift-JIS conversion.

2004-11-25 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
ï Dear Pragati,   You can write your own conversion, of course. The mapping tables of Unicode->SJIS are readily availably. You should note that there are several vendor specific variations in the mapping tables. Notably Microsoft code page 932, which is often called Shift-JIS, has more charact