Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Koji Yokota schrieb: > >> Shift-JIS (Japanese encoding by Microsoft) can contain problematic >> character in the second byte, so the CJK package cannot be handled *as >> is*.
Exactly. This is also documented in the encodings file (it does not hurt to look through the existing encodings when adding a new one). BTW, SJIS is not the only encoding with this stupid property (see again the encodings file). >> To use Shift-JIS code, the document file must be "pre-processed" >> with sjisconv which comes with the CJK package before compiling with >> latex. Can this be implemented? > > In principle yes, but this won't be easy. Why not? There are already two different supported latex compilers: pdflatex and latex. It should be quite easy to extend this to jlatex and jpdflatex. Georg
