Re: SJIS & HTML - potential trouble?

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

On Nov 20,  9:53am, Darren Cook wrote:
} Subject: Re: SJIS & HTML - potential trouble?

>>  HTML text has to be in ISO-Latin 1 character set, which
>> has reserved space for the first byte of SJIS double-byte characters.

Not really. ISO-Latin 1 (aka ISO 8859-1) is an extension on the 128
characters of ISO 646 (aka ASCII). There is no "reserved space" for SJIS's
first bytes - you need to tell your browser it is one or the other,
because they overlap.

>> Second byte range is 64..126, and there are no HTML special meaning
>> characters in that range.

OK.

Cheers

Jim
jwb@example.com
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