Doug Ewell wrote: >> As many Japanese type Yen sign, when he actually want to input back >> slash, the JIS character of Yen sign is converted to unicode character >> of Yen sign, which is not back slash, which was the intention. > I think this means that the user's kludge, in typing a yen sign to get a > backslash, is not matched by Unicode with an equal and opposite kludge > of converting the yen sign back to a backslash. I guess in the 1960s > one could consider this a fault. That is simply a reality though it does not match your opinion. It should also be noted that, in Japanese encoding of JIS C 6226, back slash and Yen sign has been separateds already in 1978, which means unicode adds nothing. > Why don't we ask one of the scores of software vendors that have > deployed Unicode, at least as "fully" as this thread is about, just how > "disastrous" their experience has been and how much better things would > be if they had stuck with ISO 2022 instead? See above. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf