Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: jfieber@indiana.edu Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hanai@astec.co.jp, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: SGML doc changes Message-ID: <199609040300.UAA10130@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960903212527.7948B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> (message from John Fieber on Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:40:36 -0500 (EST))
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* The obvious problem is combining different encodings. I gather
* if we restrict the non-japanese text to USASCII we should not run
* into conflicts with EUC-J. Thats fine for english and japanese,
* but would be a hassle for other european languages who would be
* better with the ISO 8859-x or KOI8 encodings.
I'm afraid this could be quite confusing, 'cause Chinese and Korean
can also be encoded in EUC and there is nothing in there to
distinguish. The only way to mix multiple multi-byte languages is to
use a stateful encoding (JIS for Japanese), but then we'll have a much
larger task of fixing tools to handle these.
And I'm sure our European (save Brits :) friends will have something
to say about restricting their code space to US-ASCII. :>
Satoshi
P.S. Of course there's also Unicode, but nobody uses that in the CJK
world....
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