tlug: Re: too many? encodings and compilers

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

> > Setting Unicode aside for the moment, 
> > is there any _single_ Japanese encoding 
> > that has been suggested to take the 
> > place of euc, jis and sjis?
> > Seems like a needless hassle having 
> > to convert between two or three and 
> > make sure that software can display all 
> > of the three. 
> 
> Unicode is exactly it.  Why set it aside?  
> I doubt there is any other.

Well, not a few Japanophones find fault with Unicode, as evidenced 
by the ongoing usage of the above-mentioned encodings. I don't 
want to get bogged down into a debate on Unicode, just wanted 
to know if there was (or why there wasn't) _one_ Japanese encoding. 
That's why I set it aside. 

> tested enough to go with it. Have a look at the web page, apply the patches,
> and remove the error line. If you ignore the warnings, it should build
> happily.

Thanks! 



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