Re: SJIS & HTML - potential trouble?

[darren@example.com (Darren Cook)]

>>>  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.
>
128..159 are unused in Latin-1, which is first-byte range for most kanji.
I forgot about the half-width katakana (161-223), and there seems to be
another set of first byte ranges at 224-239, and 240-252 (user-defined).
This is such fun isn't it :-).
At least this only messes up the display a bit (umlauts,etc. in European
names and the copyright symbol come out as katakana), but shouldn't mess up
anything serious.


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