"Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Got this request by phone and email at the unicode home office. Could anyone respond directly to the list and cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Magda. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Buis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UNICODE versus Shift-JIS Hello, I'm currently researching the effort involved with localizing a medical product to Japanese. This product is display-only, no data input is involved. Some people are suggesting I translate the user interface interface using the Shift-JIS character set, others support UNICODE. I'd like to know how the characters from the two sets map to each other. For example, would character #F123 in the Shift-JIS set be the same as character #F123 in the UNICODE set. If not, are the characters stored in the same order in both sets, but at different offsets within each set. For example, the Shift-JIS set starts at offset 0x000 and their equivalent characters start at offset 0xFF00 in the UNICODE set. If that is true, then character #0002 in the Shift-JIS set would be the same as character #FF02 in the UNICODE set. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Ken Buis Agilent Technologies 978-659-4859 ----------------- I'm not sure, but guys, isn't SJIS more popular? But then again, if "popularity" were always an issue, we'd still be writing numbers in Roman numerals, right? Personally, I'd use SJIS. Which leads me to this question: what is a good browser to use to read Japanese? Netscape seems to have trouble with reading ALT tags in Japanese. I tried to counteract this problem on my website by buffering some of the ALT tags with spaces, but no dice. (The problem was it would only show the first half of whatever was in the ALT tag. So I figured, put in dummy spaces...) Any of you have problems reading Japanese ALT tags? ** 11-Digit Boy ** My site is: http://members.spree.com/entertainment/11digitboy ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
