Properties of multibyte encodings

From: Nitsan Seniak (seniak@ilog.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 25 1997 - 10:25:51 EST


Hi,

I'm not sure this is the right place for posting this question --
but I don't know of any other mailing list talking of i18n issues.

I'm currently working on the internationalization of a product
for asian countries, especially Japan. For implementation reasons,
I'm considering only supporting multibyte encodings with the
following properties:

  1. They are a superset of ASCII, which means that a character starting

     with a byte in the range [0x00, 0x7F] is a one-byte ASCII
     character;
  2. They don't use shift states (ie, a multibyte character can always
     be interpreted independently of the ones which precede it.)

Does anybody knows if these restrictions are reasonable? I know that EUC

and SJIS are OK, and that JIS isn't; will not supporting JIS cut a big
part of the market? Thanks for any advice.

-- Nitsan Seniak

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