From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 22 18:32:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16400 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:32:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16393 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hanai@astec.co.jp) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id LAA05845; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:32:00 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (elpibe.astec.co.jp [172.20.21.82]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.6Wbeta5-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id LAA07644; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:32:37 +0900 (JST) To: man-jp-core@jp.freebsd.org, jfieber@indiana.edu Cc: horikawa@isrd.hitachi.co.jp, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [man-jp-core 939] Re: Proposal to put Japanese online manuals into freefall CVS repository From: Hiroyuki HANAI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:00:41 -0500 (EST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980123113152P.hanai@astec.co.jp> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:31:52 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 31 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John Fieber wrote: > I would like to resolve the ja versus ja_JP.EUC question first, > but otherwise that sounds fine. I think that members in Japanese documetation group will agree with John's idea. # Sorry to be late. > Encoding may still be an issue, but how big of an issue? In the > web/mail/news environment, documents can be self-identifying. Can In the mail/news environment, there exists a rule that we must use ISO-2022-JP in encoding Japanese characters. > a man program detect EUC versus SJIS input and convert on-the-fly > to the active locale encoding if necessary? (Am I correct in Anyone cannot resolve EUC and SJIS explicitly. :-( # There is an overlapping region in the two encondings. Well, I think a man program doesn't have to detect the character encodings because we can make a rule that man pages should be EUC-encoded when Japanese characters appears in them. > believing that EUC -> SJIS -> EUC is a "lossless" conversion?) You are right. It's a lossless conversion. -- Hiroyuki HANAI =-= Be cool! =-= hanai@jp.FreeBSD.ORG