[tlug] japanese encoding question

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Hi, I thought I had this Japanese encoding stuff sorted out but my
industrious Japanese colleagues seem to find new things to confuse me.

I've got a problem with a character on one of our pages that is breaking
some browsers. It is a roman numeral 2, ie it looks like II but one
character.

Its SJIS encoding is x8755 and according to MS IME has a kuten of 1322.
However JIS X 0208:1997 does not have a row 13, it jumps from row 08 to
16 (start of kanji).

Does anyone know what's going on here? Where did this row 13 come from?
Is row 13 a Microsoft "enhancement" or is their a latter JIS X 0208 that
I can't find?

Before anyone does say it, I would love them to use EUC and not SJIS.


Brett



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