On 4/14/2011 6:00 PM, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > Given that the second byte is in the range 0x40..0x7E (second para), and / is > 0x2F, there > shouldn't be a problem with Shift-JIS. That's not to say there isn't another > codeset > where there isn't a problem, but I don't think it is Shift-JIS and possibly > not any of the > main Japanese codesets.
Looking at the references to the EUC and Big5 encodings, it seems similarly safe to assume 20-3F are always the expected ASCII representations, while 0x40-0x7E seem dicey. Thanks for this research, it saved me a ton of headaches!
