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If there's ~398 byte combinations that can be translated only one way, but not the other, you're still losing data. (The big one that always gets pointed out? '
by halostatue 17y ago
If there's ~398 byte combinations that can be translated only one way, but not the other, you're still losing data. (The big one that always gets pointed out? '\' and '¥'.)
- earthboundkid 17y ago"(The big one that always gets pointed out? '\' and '¥’.)” The point there though is that Japanese DON’T want \ and ¥ to map properly. They want \ and ¥ to be considered the same. So Unicode isn’t losing information, it’s forcing a distinction the Japanese don’t want to be able to make.