David Starner: > Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the upper half?
You have EUC-JP, which encodes the JIS X 0208 at 0xA1-0xFE (it is the same encoding as ISO-2022-JP, but with the high bit set, and no escape sequences). > Could SJIS be used instead? Shift-JIS is a horrible Microsoftism and should be abolished :-) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html