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From: bayes@hpfcrj.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Need Kanji fonts (hershey)
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 19:43:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 19:43:10 1987
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>/ hpfcrj:comp.graphics / edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) / 12:27 pm  Feb 17, 1987 /
>In article <13460@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>:
>:They are all double-width, as are the kana characters (2 bytes, 2
>:character positions).  JIS 6220 contains the half-width (1 byte, 1

Note that JIS C 6226 specifies 7-bit bytes, with the 8th probably reserved
for parity. So the address space is 2^14.

>:character position) forms of the kana.
>
  >What's a JIS ?

JIS = Japanese Industrial Standard (Committee)
Published by: 	Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
		1-24 Akasaka 4 Chome, Minato-ku
		Tokyo, 107 Japan

but the document I have (JIS C 6226) was published c. 1978.

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Scott Bayes