> I recall a discussion in which someone explained that things are messy for > Japanese because there's not really just one version of SJIS; there are > several, because various groups extended the original standard in not- > quite-compatible ways. In turn this means that there's not really one > well-defined conversion to/from Unicode
That's true. > --- which is the reason why > allowing custom conversions seemed like a good idea. I don't know > whether anyone over there is actually using custom conversions, but > I'd be hesitant to just nuke the feature altogether. By Googling I found an instance which is using CREATE CONVERSION (Japanese article). http://grep.blog49.fc2.com/blog-entry-87.html -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
