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From: thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson)
Subject: Re: Kanji on PC's (MS-DOS)
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.094113.2144@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto
References: <1605@hpwala.wal.hp.com> <4938@srava.sra.co.jp>
Date: 22 Jan 91 14:41:13 GMT
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In article <4938@srava.sra.co.jp> erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
>In article <1605@hpwala.wal.hp.com> lupienj@hpwarq.hp.com writes:
>> Is there a standard for Japanese (Kanji) charater codes?
>
>Yes, there are several. The most notable ones are JIS, Shift-JIS and
>EUC. The most widely used Kanji code on MS-DOS is Shift-JIS, which is
>also known as mskanji (note the "ms").
>

I might point out that the three codes mentioned are actually different
formats of the same encoding, and so it is not very difficult to convert
between them.

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		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
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