Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!s.u-tokyo!rkna50!nttlab!kyo-sr!hitoaki From: hitoaki@kyo-sr.ntt.junet (SAKAMOTO Hitoaki) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso Subject: Re: Character sets: ISO 6937 vs ISO 8859 Message-ID: <2064@kyo-sr.ntt.junet> Date: 7 Nov 90 07:44:06 GMT References: <1411.657811134@UK.AC.UCL.CS> Sender: news@kyo-sr.ntt.junet Reply-To: hitoaki@nttlab.ntt.jp Organization: NTT Tokyo Technical and Development Center. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com's message of 6 Nov 90 15:32:50 GMT In article philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone) writes: > JIS C 6226 16-bit > This is known as Kanji. > JIS X 0208 This is the current name for JIS C 6226. JIS X0201-1976 Code for Information Interchange. JIS X0208-1990 Code of the Japanese Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange. JIS X0212-1990 Code of the Supplementary Japanese Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange. "JIS X0201" is 7bit or 8bit encoding roman and "Kana" characters. "JIS X0208" and "JIS X0212" is 16bit encoding "Kanji" characters. ------ Hitoaki Sakamoto ( hitoaki@nttlab.ntt.jp ) Nippon Telephone and Telegraph corporation. Tokyo Technical and Development Center.