Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author: Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.utf8 > > You have to assume that most Japanese systems will display \ as a Yen symbol, > because they wlil. > > Now, translation tables for CP932 on these systems could translate > backslash and the yen symbol both to the yen symbol; that way, other > people would see what that user saw, and that user will get yen symbols > back. But then you break round-trip; when you go back to CP932, you > don't know whether it was originally a backslash code or a yen code. >
You don't know that in the first place, apparently; so what difference does it make? Either you have the two distinguished from the beginning or you don't. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/