Keld writes:
I *do* have mnemonics for the
east-asian languages, and JIS is officially employing these
mnemonics in their POSIX Japanese locale specification.
No, this is not official yet. The Japanese locale definition is still
a draft, not a standard.
On the other hand, I understand that
the Japanese are happy with their EUC encoding, which is 7-bit
and in wide use in networking, so they do not need mnemonic.
They don't use EUC (which is 8-bit) in non-local email. They use
another profile of ISO 2022, commonly called `JIS', which is 7-bit
(actually, 2x7-bit).
I agree that they don't need mnemonic for Japanese email.
Regards,
EvdP