Re: [tlug] Nomiki in June 13th timeframe?

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@??>]

This thread is quite a trip down Memory Lane. Great to see your name
pop up, Craig. I never got a copy of "Linux日本語環境". I should track it
down.

The references to EUC/Shi(f)t-JIS/etc. made me wonder whether I'd
shared here an article/paper I did a couple of years ago on Japanese
character sets and coding.  It's called "Kanji and the Computer: A
Brief History of Japanese Character Set Standards." and I wrote it
because I kept encountering people who didn't know the trials we went
through back then. It's available at:
https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/paperdir/spp360_kanji_computers_japanese_character_set.pdf

Cheers

Jim


On Thu, 28 May 2026 at 02:39, Craig Oda <craig@??> wrote:
>
> Steve,
> Wow, what a treat to hear from you.
>
> That book project was a real privilege for me to work with serious
> academics like you.
>
> It was a great time when a bunch of Linux hobbyists could cooperate
> and make some small contributions to the knowledge pool.  Unicode,
> UTF-16, was just a baby and shift-jis was the godzilla of the time, a
> big monster rambling through Tokyo and destroying things.  ;-).
> There was no shelter in EUC on Linux as the world was getting
> connected, one TCP/IP packet at time. But, I don't remember JIS being
> a safe haven either.  And, wasn't there a major and disruptive glibc
> change right at that time?
>
> Thank you for all your work.  I think we all did what we could.  My
> technical ability was limited compared to other people, but I was
> enthusiastic and young.
>
> It's a great memory for me.
>
> -- Craig
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <steve@??> wrote:
> >
> > Craig Oda writes:
> >
> > Well, well, well, look what the wind blew in!  Looking forward to it,
> > Co-Author!
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > --
> > GNU Mailman consultant (installation, migration, customization)
> > Sirius Open Source    https://www.siriusopensource.com/
> > Software systems consulting in Europe, North America, and Japan
> >
>


-- 
Jim Breen
https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/  http://www.jimbreen.org/