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some multibyte japanese encodings cannot be losslessly converted to Unicode I hadn't heard this... do you have a link or search terms that will produce more in
by randallsquared 16y ago
some multibyte japanese encodings cannot be losslessly converted to Unicode
I hadn't heard this... do you have a link or search terms that will produce more information about the issue ("convert CJK unicode" and "multibyte japanese encoding unicode" didn't)?
- pilif 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
- wycats 16y agoAlso, http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/17/encodings-unabridged/ http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/17/encodings-unabridged/ My post is mostly about the ramifications of Ruby 1.9's encoding support on Rails (a similar topic), but I go into some detail about the problems of Japanese encodings on the web.
- pilif 16y agosee also the novel I posted here on Hacker News defending the way Ruby 1.9 decided to handle strings with: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163684 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163684