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Subject: Can someone explain the various forms of Japanese text encoding?
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 20:07:30 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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So far I've seen "romanji", which appears to be a romanized form of
Japanese, JIS (which is?) and "EUC" (which is?).  I'd like to support
the "most standard" type for sysinstall, but I'm a little unclear as
to just exactly what that might be.  Romanji looks like the easiest to
display, but it's probably also the least palatable to the native
Japanese speaker.  Given that I also have *no* Japanese fonts for
syscons, I'm also somewhat limited in that dept. anyway.  There is a
format I can display with the ISO8859-1 font, according to Satoshi,
though I'm still a little unclear on how it works.

I would welcome any suggestions or additional information!  I'm not
exactly an expert in I18N issues, though I get the feeling that I'm
going to know a lot more than I planned about this by the time I'm
done! :)


					Jordan