Re: [tlug] Why is Shift_JIS bad?

[Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@example.com>]

Thanks Jim,

That is a very educational site.

So it seems that the root of the problem is the
difficulty of distinguishing Shift_JIS from ASCII,
particularly if the data is missing a few bytes
here and there.

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 21:57, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:39:52PM +0900, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> > If anyone out there can point me to something I
> > could read which might arm me with the knowledge
> > necessary to banish SJIS from my projects, I will
> > be forever (or at least a few weeks) in your debt.
> 
> I think one of Ka-Ping Yee's pages explains the problem rather
> graphically:
>   http://web.lfw.org/text/jp.html
> 
> 
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