Re: Java 1.2 Character conversion problems

• From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:42:28 +0900
• To: "Stuart Woodward" <stuart@gol.com>, <www-international@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20000607124018.0355f730@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

At 00/06/07 09:51 +0900, Stuart Woodward wrote:
>Has anyone else come across problems with Unicode->JIS conversion from Java
>1.2? We found that at least one Japanese punctuation character (e.g double
>byte dash) were not making the round trip properly and had to work around
>the problem by filtering these out and converting them to roughly equivalent
>safe characters.
>
>I wondered if anyone else had seen this type of problem and perhaps even
>made a testbed to test roundtripping character conversions.

Hello Stuart,

You may be able to find some information on this in the following
Submission that W3C has received recently:

http://www.w3.org/TR/japanese-xml/

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 6 June 2000 23:52:00 UTC