dtomm@oracle.com (06/29/90)
The sony kana fonts in x windows have only katakana, with encoding "JISX0201.1976", while the kanji font k14 has everything, with encoding "JISX0208.1983", and the codes for katakana are different. What is the difference between these two encodings? More generally, could someone explain the various encoding schemes used for Japanese characters? What is the difference in encoding between a character set which has only katakana vs. one with all the kanas and all the kanji? What is JIS v. shift-JIS? What else is used? References would be appriciated. Doug Tomm Oracle Corp. dtomm@oracle.com 415-598-4494 Nama mugi, nama gome, nama tamago.