- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:54:15 +0900
- To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
I have repeatedly proposed to revise the registration of "Shift_JIS" and "Windows-31J" since last September. Could somebody tell me what is the current status? Thanks, Makoto --------------------------------------------------------------------- MURATA Makoto wrote: > MURATA Makoto wrote: > > Ken (Kenzaburo Tamaru) of Microsoft and I have reached a consensus. > > Here is the revised proposal, which is very close to my > > original proposal ("Clarification of existing charsets", > > Sep. 7). > > More than two weeks have passed since I submitted this revision proposal (Oct 12). > There was one comment from Chris, and I revised the revision proposal accordingly. > Have we reached a consensus? > > Cheers, > > Makoto > --------- > > Name: Shift_JIS (preferred MIME name) > MIBenum: 17 > Source: This charset is an extension of csHalfWidthKatakana by > adding graphic characters in JIS X 0208. The CCS's are > JIS X0201:1997 and JIS X0208:1997. The > complete definition is shown in Appendix 1 of JIS > X0208:1997. > This charset can be used for the top-level media type "text". > Alias: MS_Kanji > Alias: csShiftJIS > > > Name: Windows-31J > MIBenum: 2024 > Source: Windows Japanese. A further extension of Shift_JIS > to include NEC special characters (Row 13), > NEC selection of IBM extensions (Rows 89 to 92), and IBM > extensions (Rows 115 to 119). The CCS's are > JIS X0201:1997, JIS X0208:1997, and these extensions. > This charset can be used for the top-level media type "text", > but it is of limited or specialized use (see RFC2278). > PCL Symbol Set id: 19K > Alias: csWindows31J > > Makoto > > Fuji Xerox Information Systems > > Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 > E-mail: murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp >
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