"David Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the > upper half?
No, but you may have been thrown off by the fact that EUC-JP is a proper ISO-2022 encoding. This is not the same as a ISO-2022-JP encoding. See Ken Lunde's CJKV, Chap. 4 for details. > Could SJIS be used instead? Never! It can't support JIS X 0212-1990 and conversion to something else is a PITA. Can't think of a *good* reason to convert the other way around ;-) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development Free Software: `No walls, no windows! No fences, no gates!'