Thanks, I'm looking into this. -- Raul
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:49:07AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:42:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > UCS4 is not a satisfactory encoding for our needs, unfortunately. > > > JIS is not comlpete either, but UCS4 is less. > > > > Could you provide some examples of characters encoded in JIS but not > > in UCS4? [a url would be fine, if it's hard to represent this in email.] > > China-Japan-Korea Unified Ideographs > is one that is causing the most pain. > > You could search for pages with the keyword "unified ideographs CJK" > in google and lots of pages will be found. > > The main problem is that, the character information is not enough to > represent what it is, and in practical terms, depending on the current chosen > locale, the font used has to be changed. > > > I.e. you need the "current language" information to decypher UCS4, > like the "lang" tag in xml. > > > Microsoft (one of the main culprit for the CJK unification process, I have > heard) seems to have noticed the problem, and > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q170/5/59.ASP > tells you the problem and lists a bunch of "unified ideograph"s which > cannot be correctly handled. > > > > > I am not sure if this has been resolved. > > regards, > junichi > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GE d+ s:- a-- C+ UL++++ P- L+++ E W++ N o-- K- w++ > O- M- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t-- 5 X-- R* tv- b+ DI- D++ > G e h* r% !y+ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
