From seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp Tue Dec 11 11:37:07 1990 Received: from mcsun.EU.net by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA13943; Tue, 11 Dec 90 11:37:07 +0100 Received: by mcsun.EU.net via EUnet; Tue, 11 Dec 90 11:40:54 +0100 Received: from fai.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA01865; Tue, 11 Dec 90 05:39:50 -0500 Received: by fai.fai.com; id AA04726; Tue, 11 Dec 90 02:38:36-1795 Received: from [133.161.1.9] by fgw.fujitsu.co.jp (5.65/6.4J.6) id AA02557; Tue, 11 Dec 90 19:35:58 +0900 Received: by spad.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (4.12/6.4J.6) id AA16199; Tue, 11 Dec 90 14:34:48 JST Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 05:34:45 GMT From: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI Return-Path: Message-Id: <9012110534.AA00367@seki.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Keld J|rn Simonsen Organization: Planning Dept., R&P Div., Fujitsu Limited Address: 1015 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki 211 JAPAN X-Host-Os: Fujitsu SX/G E13A X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.5 4/17/89) To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (i18n 33) Re: Japanese Profile Cc: XoTGinter@xopen.co.uk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Answers and comments on the issue, as the ``author'' of the original. [In "(i18n 33) Re: Japanese Profile" Keld J|rn Simonsen writes:] > Concerning the Japanese X/open locale: This might be a minor issue, but please note that my definition is only an example, and it is not intended to be a part of any formal specification. There are people who do not wat to call it ``Japanese locale'' or ``X/Open locale.'' > X0208 as I know it does not allow to use undefined positions. JIS X0208 has no definition on usage of those undefined positions. The standard has a KAISETSU (which is JIS counter part of ISO's ``informative annex'', I guess) saying: ``Subject to agreement between interchanging parties, these (undefined) area may be used by assigning characters, tmporarily or locally.'' > A third questionable item is the use of collating, first the > capital letters then the lowercase letters. Is that common Japanese > usage? Yes and no. In real Japanese life, alphabets are collated in Western manner. In typical Japanese computers, alphabets in JIS X0208 is collated via their internal code value, i.e., all uppercases first, then lowercases. That's what happening today in Japan. -- Masahiro Sekiguchi Planning Dept., R&P Div., Fujitsu Limited seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (JUNET) -or- PDB01144 (NIFTY-Serve)