This is a forwarded message
From: Anton Tagunov <tagunov(_at_)motor(_dot_)ru>
To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nick(_dot_)ing-simmons(_at_)elixent(_dot_)com>
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 7:35:43 PM
Subject: Do Chinese use Katakana? What is 1988.enc (was: ISO-8859-1 vs ISO
8859-1 )
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Hello, all! Hello, Nick!
Am I wrong?
2 me it looks that 1988.enc..
well it is the same as jis0201.enc with the only
difference: 0x24 ('$') is mapped somewhere up, mush be Yuan.
Well, I understand what 0201.enc is
(after all rfc1345 has &charset JIS_X0201
which is 8-bit and has
- JIS Roman (at 0x21-0x7E)
- JIS Katakana (at 0xA1-0xFE)
)
But why does 1988.enc do?
It looks like someone has taken the
&charset GB_1988-80
&alias iso-ir-57
7-bit GB Roman (ASCII with a Yuan instead of $)
and has glued it together with JIS Katakana.
Do Chinese use Katakana? Does such encoding make
sense?
- Anton
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Best regards,
Anton mailto:tagunov(_at_)motor(_dot_)ru
