From aa64639e6f6e3f6388abfb70565a42850192af27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:03:59 +0000 Subject: Update. 2001-06-09 Bruno Haible * charmaps/BIG5-HKSCS: Renamed from charmaps/BIG5HKSCS. Change code_set_name to BIG5-HKSCS. Add BIG5HKSCS alias. * charmaps/SHIFT_JIS: Renamed from charmaps/SJIS. Change code_set_name --- manual/charset.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'manual') diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi index de420ea8a5..9068e42f2a 100644 --- a/manual/charset.texi +++ b/manual/charset.texi @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ character on its own or whether it has to be combined with some more bytes. @cindex EUC +@cindex Shift_JIS @cindex SJIS In most uses of @w{ISO 2022} the defined character sets do not allow state changes which cover more than the next character. This has the @@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ big advantage that whenever one can identify the beginning of the byte sequence of a character one can interpret a text correctly. Examples of character sets using this policy are the various EUC character sets (used by Sun's operations systems, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, and EUC-CN) -or SJIS (Shift-JIS, a Japanese encoding). +or Shift_JIS (SJIS, a Japanese encoding). But there are also character sets using a state which is valid for more than one character and has to be changed by another byte sequence. -- cgit 1.4.1