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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami |
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Subject: Re: Can someone explain the various forms of Japanese text encoding? 
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Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 06:02:30 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> JIS (short for "Japan Industrial Standard", which is the Japanese
> equivalent of ISO) code is the "real" standard in the sense that (1)
> it can coexist with other multi-byte languages, and (2) there is a
> "standard" for it (JIS-X-0208).  It uses Esc-$-B to start the Japanese
> part and Esc-(-B to end it (i.e., back to ASCII).  In the Japanese
> sentence, two bytes denote a single letter.

Thanks for clearing this up!  I'm going to save this message somewhere
for future reference.. :-)

>  * 		      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.
> 
> According to ME?!?  When did I say that? ;)  I don't think that's
> possible.... :<

Sorry, wrong Satoshi - NIIMI Satoshi (which is the first and which is
the last name I'm still trying to figure out with you guys! :-).

					Jordan