Re: KANJD212

dareka <dareka@xxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> IMNSHO JIS213 will be/has been overtaken by Unicode. All the kanji
>> in JIS208/212/213 are in Unicode.

>It seems they have included all the JIS X 0213 kanjis in
>Unicode 3.2 or other version.

Correct. With JIS213 being a national standard, it's normal that its
contents get rolled into ISO10646/Unicode. I think about 25 kanji in
JIS213 were not already in Unicode at that time.

>But I guess, to be in compliance
>with JIS X 0213, it's logically needed that the Unicode uses a
>JIS X 0213 compliance font.

Unicode does not "use" fonts. You see whatever font you choose
to use. (A persistent myth in Japan about Unicode is that it "uses"
Chinese-looking fonts.)

>The fun thing is it seems Windows will adopt JIS X 0213 in
>future versions and service packs even though it had said it
>wouldn't. Or at least they will change codepage 932 file so
>that JIS X 0213 fonts can be used without patching the file. I
>don't know whether the adoption means they'll use an updated
>version of Unicode fonts that include all JIS X 0213 kanjis.

Again, fonts have nothing to do with codepages either. Codepages
are (simply) Microsoft's way of implementing different codesets.
Codepage 932 implements Shift_JIS, so extending it to include
the additional JIS213 kanji is expected.

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Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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