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Subject: | Re: Shift-JIS NEC/IBM discussion |
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Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:56:33 +0000 |
From: | Mark Zeren <mzeren@vmware.com> |
To: | std-text-wg <std-text-wg@googlegroups.com> |
rmf [1 day
ago]
AFAIK there
isn't a standard way to roundtrip this, not even a de facto
one.
rmf [1 day
ago]
Picking one
way to do so seems overreaching as the user may have
additional constraints we aren't aware of.
rmf [1 day
ago]
The building
blocks could be providing NEC-only and IBM-only variants as
encoding forms, or providing a way to customize code
mappings. (edited)
rmf [1 day
ago]
Or both.
rmf [1 day
ago]
True
roundtripping here also seems to be of limited use, because
you're unlikely to have mixed IBM and NEC characters. I
think most of the time what you want is the ability to pick
which of those two will Unicode->SJIS produce (edited)
rmf [1 day
ago]
So you would
do e.g. cp932 -> Unicode -> jisIBM or whatever that's
called.
sdowney [22
hours ago]
Thanks for
clarifying this! I hate when I know something that isn't
true.