Rick McGowan writes: > A long long time ago we decided to drop support for most mappings.
With much discussion, contention, and huffing, I might add. Let's not reopen this discussion. I know Rick doesn't want to. I certainly don't, and I expect Jenkins would prefer to avoid it too. ;-) > There are many reasons, not least of which is that some of them are > moving targets, and we don't have resources to support them. For > "Shift JIS" there are many problems because there isn't just one > "Shift JIS"; each vendor has their own flavor. The vendors should > track their own mappings to Unicode, where they differ from JIS. The best thing to do is pick a flavor of Shift JIS and stay with it. At this point I recommend CP-932, only because it is probably the most ubiquitous. While I don't work with the Japanese encodings that often, I expect there are even different versions of CP-932 depending on which version of Windows you are using. This is certainly true for CP-950. This does, of course, depend on your application. You can find many mapping tables for these at IBM's ICU site, http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ In particular, http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/charset/data/xml/ You can also find tables in the GNU iconv source, and numerous other places, e.g., Mozilla. -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Software Architect http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
