Re: [Fwd: Solaris box with ja as locale supports Roman numbers, Circled numbers in Japanese strings]

Hello,

Many Roman numerals and circled numbers are a part of JIS X 0208
and also a part of SJIS and so any Japanese EUC and Shift_JIS/PCK locales
will support the characters and that includes Japanese locales in Solaris.
And ISO-2022-JP also has JIS X 0208.

With regards,

Ienup


] Subject: Solaris box with ja as locale supports   Roman numbers, Circled
] numbers in Japanese strings
] Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:42:58 -0500 (EST)
] Resent-From: www-international@w3.org
] Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:42:41 -0500
] From: souravm <souravm@infosys.com> (by way of Martin Duerst
] <duerst@w3.org>)
] To: www-international@w3.org
] 
] 
] 
] 
] 
] Hi Steve (and all),
] 
] I'm observing something funny in Solaris box related to the issue of
] support for Roman numbers and Circled numbers in Japanese string by EUC-JP,
] which we discussed previously.
] 
] I'm having a solaris box 2.8. There I'm setting ja as locale (LANG=ja,
] LC_ALL=ja) which is supposed to be EUC-Jp equivalent in Solaris. I'm
] accessing the Solaris box from a telnet client - there also I'm setting the
] encoding as EUC-JP.
] 
] Now I'm trying to type those circled numbers and Roman numbers through the
] telnet client in - a) Command Prompt, b) In a file opened in VI editor.
] 
] The observation is - I'm successfully able to type (in both command prompt
] and VI editor) and store those characters (in VI editor).
] 
] Based on our previous understanding EUC-JP is not supposed to support these
] characters. In that case I don't know how do we rationalize above
] observation.
] 
] Any clue ?
] 
] Regards,
] Sourav
] 
] -----Original Message-----
] From: Steve Billings [mailto:billings@global360.com]
] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:48 AM
] To: souravm; www-international@w3.org
] Subject: RE: Query on Encoding supporting Roman numbers, Circled numbers in
] Japanese strings
] 
] Those characters are non-JIS-standard characters (therefore not in
] ISO-2022-JP or EUC-JP) that exist in Microsoft CP932 (the Japanese Windows
] codepage). In other words: yes, you are correct.
] 
] Steve
] 
] 
] Steve Billings
] Global 360
] Software Internationalization & Localization
] http://www.global360.com/
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] 
] -----Original Message-----
] From: www-international-request@w3.org
] [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of souravm (by way of
] Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>)
] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:17 PM
] To: www-international@w3.org
] Subject: Query on Encoding supporting Roman numbers, Circled numbers in
] Japanese strings
] 
] 
] 
] 
] Hi All,
] 
] I've a simple application which accepts Japanese string from a HTML form
] and then show the same string in the response page.
] 
] Now if I enter Roman characters like I, II, etc and Circled numbers like
] $B-!!"-"(B etc as a part of Japanese string, the string is properly shown 
back
] in response page when the encoding used is UTF-8. However, the same thing
] does not work in case of EUC_JP, Shift_JIS and ISO-2022-JP as encoding.
] 
] I believe these characters are not supported in EUC_JP, Shift_JIS and
] ISO-2022_jp. Can anyone please confirm it ?
] 
] Regards,
] Sourav
] 
] 
]

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