Jean-Christophe Helary
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Thu Aug 17 00:21:20 JST 2006
Mahn-soo, It is not only European languages that used the 8th byte. Japanese used it to produce what we call "hankaku" (半角, half size) characters, mostly katakana and punctuation marks. Now single byte Japanese is obsolete but the characters remain in double byte encoding... And good luck with Spanish ! I gave up on Korean a long while ago, not being able to distinguish some vowels and consonants that sounded too similar for my ear... Jean-Christophe On 16 août 06, at 23:52, Mahn-Soo Choi wrote: > 2006/8/16, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusio****@mx6*****>: >> I can't answer the other questions but as far as this one is >> concerned, Latin-1 is not a subset of unicode. ASCII is. This is the >> reason why one byte encodings are not mutually compatible. The ASCII >> part is left as is but the 8th bit is used to define the other 128 >> codes, which differ according to the language they code. >> > Dear Jean-Christophe, > You're right. I was too naive. I hope I can have a better > understanding of European languages soon or later. > Best, > mahn-soo > _______________________________________________ > macemacsjp-english mailing list > macem****@lists***** > http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/listinfo/macemacsjp-english >
