[I18n-sig] Re:naming codecs
Frank J.S. Chen
frank63@ms5.hinet.net
Fri, 8 Dec 2000 04:17:56 -0000
> > GNU Emacs gives the name "iso-2022-7bit" to the encoding that
> > can encode JIS X 0201 Katakana. However, this name is too big
> > to use for the ISO-2022-JP variant, since iso-2022-7bit can
> > encode all character sets that GNU Emacs supports.
> >
> How about "iso-2022-hwkk"? I think somebody who knows Japanese
> information processing will probably guess this, and they will
> certainly not forget it.
>
Agree. Since Halfwidth Katakana is a special encoding scheme for Japan
in Japanese computers system history, it is absolutely required that
someone
knows and uses associated legacy operating system that supports Halfwidth
Katakana.
But I think it still has a "jp" in that name, like ISO-2022-JP-HWKK, so
that someone like
me won't consider it as a mysterous mapping table at a first glance.
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Chen Chien-Hsun
Taipei,Taiwan,R.O.C.