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From: dtomm@oracle.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,sci.lang.japan
Subject: encoding schemes for japanese characters
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Date: 28 Jun 90 20:32:36 GMT
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Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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The sony kana fonts in x windows have only
katakana, with encoding "JISX0201.1976", while the kanji font k14 has
everything, with encoding "JISX0208.1983", and the codes for katakana
are different.  What is the difference between these two encodings?

More generally, could someone explain the various encoding schemes
used for Japanese characters?  What is the difference in encoding
between a character set which has only katakana vs. one with all the
kanas and all the kanji?  What is JIS v. shift-JIS?  What else is
used?

References would be appriciated.

Doug Tomm
Oracle Corp.
dtomm@oracle.com
415-598-4494
Nama mugi, nama gome, nama tamago.