-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > * Lars Marius Garshol > | > | The problem is what to do about the rest of the range. Lunde > | suggests mapping to the Unicode PUA, but I don't think this is what > | the people using these characters in web pages expect that mapping. > > Well, that's what I thought, anyway. But now my Japanese colleagues > tell me that Japanese users sometimes have to define their own > characters in their own fonts in order to be able to write some > characters they may need (for example to write their own name), and > that the UDCs may be intended for this.
Using an image (with alt tag giving a transliteration, say) is much better, since it doesn't require anyone to have custom fonts. However, if anyone wanted to use the PUA for this, NCRs (, etc.) would be a better way of doing it than relying on any particular mapping from Shift_JIS to the PUA. My advice would be not to bother with supporting PUA mappings for WWW use, and use the Unicode-provided CP932 mapping table for the MIME charset "Shift_JIS". (Disclaimer: I don't speak Japanese or have much contact with Japanese users, but if I did I don't think it would change this opinion, since it's just a straightforward interoperability issue. Using the CP932 variant as opposed to other variants when reading Shift_JIS does not create any problems, because the Yen sign can and should be encoded as "¥" or "¥", and similarly for other characters with ambiguous mappings.) - -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home page & PGP public key: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hopwood/ RSA 2048-bit; fingerprint 71 8E A6 23 0E D3 4C E5 0F 69 8C D4 FA 66 15 01 Nothing in this message is intended to be legally binding. If I revoke a public key but refuse to specify why, it is because the private key has been seized under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act; see www.fipr.org/rip -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBPEdkmjkCAxeYt5gVAQHCNAgAoxJmXBSx8WP0BKjWmUV6YkJrLdbv9B46 Q862X5xNKVBQQGbUvjtbOvf2eSpONCJMLMbeiUPtUPxuqPkjZWKZ/OodNgdgi7GB q5Cok5/rLSBKsAr/k2PVpe6tA3/st3u2tsztlmx3OWSQ8a3VwAoiRiKO3hmf0Uq0 nOq0ABNO1PJvpu7i4qgnFBEu7Mn3t1nhhcCLRFkoXS03tQCrYRFIxxPzZMqBseQP 1E8IA4iaLkPfLZ9vkBxXCSCIuEp6bXfU8uPmyPrnprUjAuZZ1RTMoGimjlKGbJCD ZIF5fPd4+emKJEdcspZ2SJKsF4JKCdRx04LU9f9XJSmMQMOIeMx6Pw== =hbe7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
