- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 00:01:29 +0900 (JST)
- To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Cc: klensin@INFOODS.MIT.EDU, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
> > If they *are* "plain text", then one needs switching mechanisms, not > > just "character sets" (in the "code table" sense). > > No, a large code table is equivalant to switched small tables. > Unfortunately, 16 bit space is not sufficiently large. > > We, anyway, need switching mechanism to use JIS X 0208 and JIS X 0212 > to encode some Japanese text with 7 bit encoding. > > So, switching is not essential here. It's merely an encoding issue. If you insist on not to switch, several people in Japan have proposed several ways to encode ISO 2022 into 32bit word or multibyte without switching. I, and perhaps most of the experts in Japan, don't think it so good because it is not directly displayable on commonly available hardware. Moreover, it has no unified policy on encoding various languages so that it does not worth supporting. But it is better than the combination of MIME charset switching and B encoding. Mr. Handa may be happy to explan encoding method he used internally on memory with MULE. Masataka Ohta --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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