This is only a problem for people who do not want to use Unicode. It is
certainly not Unicode's fault that the various [vendor-provided] versions of
standards are incomplete or that they conflict with each other.
Well, I suppose you could also blame Misha, for thinking that EUC-JP + NCRs
would be a good way to encode XML? But only if you were feeling a bit silly.
:-)
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starner" <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
To: <DougEwell2@cs.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; <viranga@mds.rmit.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: japanese xml
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:31:31PM -0400, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:
> > If there are two or more different mappings between Unicode/10646 and
some
> > other encoding -- say, JIS X0208 -- then different XML processors
certainly
> > may emit different outputs. That is not XML's fault, and it is not
Unicode's
> > fault either. Unicode provides mapping tables to a wide variety of
> > encodings. I would use those if it were up to me.
>
> But there's the problem: Unicode doesn't offer mapping tables for JIS
> X0208, it offers mapping tables for the various encodings based off of
> JIS X0208, and these tables disagree on how to map some JIS X0208
> characters to Unicode. SJIS -> EUC-JP is a standardized lossless
> transformation, but SJIS -> Unicode (via Unicode's mapping tables)
> -> EUC-JP produces different output in some cases.
>
> --
> David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
> Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
> "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and
> laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
>
>
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