On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jonas Petersson wrote:
> One of us is confused. I went through a conversion jungle for japanese
> about a month ago and I'm pretty sure that ISO-2022-JP is the "real" JIS
> while Shift_JIS is something really strange that M$ has invented
> (seemingly to confuse everyone else).
When people use the word "JIS" in the context of a character set
encoding, they usually mean ISO-2022-JP. Shift_JIS is entirely
different. It is a standard, however. If you're using MS products,
though, depending on what characters you use, you may end up using
a variant of Shift_JIS with some extra characters that will not be
interpreted correctly in some cases on, say, some Unix systems.
cjs
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Received on Wed Sep 22 12:32:04 2004