Re: DBCS to Shift-JIS

["Joe Sam Shirah" <jshirah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi Eiichi,

    I wanted to thank you for your messages.  It is always very helpful for
a native speaker to contibute with regard to other languages.  Although I
have a master's degree in international management and have written i18n
tutorials and moderated i18n forums, my direct experience with Asian
languages is limited to a few Japanese and Korean phrases ( including
swearing in Korean    ;-) ).  As you might expect, I can also recognize the
ideograph and word for '\u4E94'.

    At the same time, your response is somewhat bothersome.  My references
for the file encoding are directly from the v5r2 version of the IBM
Developer Kit for Java manual.  While it also shows that Cp930 is used for
"IBM EBCDIC Japanese Extended Katakana", it lists it as used with CCSID 
930. I think most programmers are going to look at the CCSID, which Joe 
noted as 943 and 5026, and check the corresponding encodings in the table.

    Please note that this is not to argue with you and is intended
generally, for any language.  My point is that I hope the responsible
parties at IBM have or will take great pains to verify file encoding and
CCSID matching.  We developers really have few alternatives when it 
comes to multilingual apps.

    Again, thanks and I hope you and other native non-English speakers will
jump in when someone like me is in need of assistance.

    BTW, my friends call me


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----- Original Message -----
From: <eiichi.yoshihira@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:52 AM
Subject: RE: DBCS to Shift-JIS


> Joe and Joe,,
>
> If you're using CCSID 5026, the Java equivalent encoding value should be
> Cp930.
> CCSID  hex    ESID          Base   CP1    CP2  Java         K
> Description
> 5026  13a2   mbcs-ebcdic    930   290 +  300  Cp930        I  Japan
> EBCDIC
> 5035  13ab   mbcs-ebcdic    939  1027 +  300  Cp939        I  Japan
> EBCDIC
>
> a side note on this, Cp943c, Cp943, MS932 and SJIS may have different
> mappings to Unicode characters,  so if you have any problems converting
> certain Japanese characters in Java, I suggest refering to this url for
> selecting the correct mapping.
> http://www.ingrid.org/java/i18n/encoding/ja-conv.html (yes, its in
> Japanese...)
>
> Regards,
> Eiichi
>