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Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)


On Jan 24 10:17, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2010/1/24 Corinna Vinschen:
> >  ?The people who decided to overload backslash
> > and tilde in the ASCII range with different symbols in SJIS still need
> > some serious knock on their heads. ?No wonder the Microsoft guys kept
> > the binary values of characters intact, especially due to the backslash
> > problem.
> 
> I looked into this a bit more, out of morbid curiosity.
> [...]

Interesting.

> > In theory, we could be able to keep SJIS support in.C [...] ?The
> 
> I've pondered that, and I don't think that's worthwhile. It's still
> going to cause trouble, e.g. with the backslash's use as an escape
> character and the tilde's use in shell expansions. Also, there are
> some more differences between standard SJIS and CP932 (although none
> as serious as the backslash and tilde issues), so more work would be
> needed to get that right. Finally, CP932 is the only "SJIS" that
> people are realistically going to care about, since that's what's in
> widespread use due to Windows. If someone really needs standard SJIS
> for converting documents or something, they can use iconv.
> 
> Therefore I've changed my mind on whether to keep SJIS and CP932
> separate: I think we should stick with the <locale>.SJIS charset as it
> is in 1.7.1, except that nl_langinfo(CODESET) for it should return
> "CP932" instead of "SJIS", to make sure iconv uses the right charset,
> thereby addressing the OP's issue.

You have a point there.  And it's the most easy way to implement it,
which is a good argument in itself.


Corinna

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