Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 06:02:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: ache@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can someone explain the various forms of Japanese text encoding? Message-ID: <1455.799592550@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 1995 04:46:20 PDT." <199505041146.EAA01328@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> JIS (short for "Japan Industrial Standard", which is the Japanese > equivalent of ISO) code is the "real" standard in the sense that (1) > it can coexist with other multi-byte languages, and (2) there is a > "standard" for it (JIS-X-0208). It uses Esc-$-B to start the Japanese > part and Esc-(-B to end it (i.e., back to ASCII). In the Japanese > sentence, two bytes denote a single letter. Thanks for clearing this up! I'm going to save this message somewhere for future reference.. :-) > * Given that I also have *no* Japanese fonts for > * syscons, I'm also somewhat limited in that dept. anyway. There is a > * format I can display with the ISO8859-1 font, according to Satoshi, > * though I'm still a little unclear on how it works. > > According to ME?!? When did I say that? ;) I don't think that's > possible.... :< Sorry, wrong Satoshi - NIIMI Satoshi (which is the first and which is the last name I'm still trying to figure out with you guys! :-). Jordan
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