Mina-san, Ohayou!
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
: "Strictly speaking", the CORRECT way to spell
: these names (in hiragana) would be:
:
: ¤¦¤¤ç¤¦
: (Ukyou)
Which is, EUC-JP, BTW, not JIS. JIS is a 7-bit encoding that uses
escape sequences to swap between 1-byte ASCII and 2-byte Japanese
characters. EUC follows the same character table, but uses 8-bit
characters to achieve the same effect. There is also Shift-JIS,
which is a rather ugly and complicated encoding scheme, invented
by Microsoft and mostly only supported by their own software (or
that which depends on it).
I just wrote a decoding and display utility for japanese encoded
text for my computer, so I just had to mention this. :)
Sebastian