On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:39:24PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: ... > > First of all, JIS means Japanese Industry Standards, it's not only for > character sets/encoding. JIS means many standards for industrial worlds, > such as screw size or so. > > Anyway, in this context, I assume JIS you say is JIS X0208. This is just > character sets not encoding. We usually uses JIS X0208 with ASCII in > ISO 2022 encoding. When ASCII->G0 and JIS X0208->G1 and G0->GL G1->GR, > we call it as EUC-JP (presicely, supplementary character sets is used > for G2/G3). In Japanese linux environments, we usually uses EUC-JP, because > it's most simplest encoding for Japanese for now. > When initially ASCII->G0 and G0->GL, and switch ASCII to JIS X0208 > with ESC $ B and switch back with ESC ( B, we call it as JIS 7bit encodig > or commonly ISO-2022-JP. We use this encoding for Internet message for
well... it seems to be a stateful (sp?) encoding scheme... while this is OKish for text documents and mail messages, it is definitely not suitable for file names and similar utf-8 is stateless, you can always (in the middle of the stream) tell what is this character and what was previous character etc... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!