tlug: Fwd:Re: CJK for LaTeX2e 212 char rep bugrep

[Martin Minich <minich5@example.com>]

Subject: Re: CJK for LaTeX2e ?bugrep: 0212 char rep

hello, people,
i wrote to the CJK man and got the answer; i forward it to you,
								m.

Martin Minich <minich5@example.com> wrote:

> > i thought those numbers to be supplied as arguments to \CJKchar are
> > to be worked out this way: <byte1> = ku + 32, <byte2> = ten + 32;
> > 
> > but alas, when i try it out and compare to the tables from the Ken
> > Lunde's book, it seems to me, that <byte1> = ku + 31, <byte2> = ten
> > + 32 are the correct formulae; but does it give any sense?
 

Werner LEMBERG <wl@example.com> (a CJK man) wrote:

> This is a bug in `j2so12.cfg'.  Please add the line
> 
>   min_char 0x2121
> 
> to this file to get correct offsets.  I've missed that there is no
> character in the first row of JIS 0212.
> 
> Thanks for sending this report!
> 
> > i'd like to be sure in using the JIS2 characters (having no other
> > software capable of JIS X 0212 chars so far)
> 
> You should get FSF emacs 20.5 (together with the intlfonts bundle)
> from ftp.gnu.org which supports JIS X 0212 -- a longer time ago I've
> even prepared an input method for this encoding (SKIP, based on the
> number of strokes), but, alas, it is lost due to a computer crash.
> Until now I haven't found some spare time to recreate this file, but
> if you are interested I can do the conversion again...
> 
> Emacs 20.5 can also output EUC-JP encoding with shift escape sequences
> for JIS 0212 characters.  The latest development snapshots of my CJK
> package have direct support for EUC-JP; you can download it from
> 
>   ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/cjk/devel/cjk-current.tar.gz
> 
> Alternatively, you can try the Emacs->LaTeX interface called
> cjk-enc.el which also supports JIS 0212 seamlessly.
> 
> BTW, emacs 20.5 with full font support (of X Window fonts) and input
> methods is available for Win32 also, AFAIK.  It is then called Meadow
> (but I don't know a URL, sorry).
> 
> 
>     Werner

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