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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.)
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