#1735: Integrate changes from the japanese community
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Reporter: jackburton | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: enhancement | Status: in-progress
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/libtextencoding.so | Version: R1/pre-alpha1
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Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
For the libtextencoding patch: what this does is replacing the "Shift_JIS"
with "cp932". The IANA does not have an encoding named "cp932":
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
The cp932 encoding comes from Windows, where they extended Shift_JIS with
some extra characters in the available space. This is similar to cp1252
for ISO-8859-15.
The extension is known to the IANA as "Windows-31J". I think it is not a
good idea to treat that the same as Shift_JIS. Microsoft calls it
"Shift_JIS" internally so it adds to the confusion. We could add it as a
separate encoding, however, as we do for cp1252.
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