[Typo3-dev] Japanese Backend

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Martin T. Kutschker wrote:
> Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> 
>> Hm, I probably didn't add it yet. will happen before final launch when I
>> begin to merge languages again.
>>
>> We still need to solve the shift-jis encoding - that has not been
>> implemented yet. Maybe Martin Kutschker will do that for us???
> 
> I had a look a shift-jis (SJIS). It seems it belongs like gb2312 into 
> the group of charsets that use ASCII (single 7bit byte) for latin 
> characters and a two byte sequence for any other character (at least the 
> 8th bit of the first byte is set to distinguish from ASCII).

*cough* but I forgot that shift-jis has the (a number of?) halfwidth 
katakana letters in the 8 bit range. So NOT every 8 bit char is a double 
byte lead-char.

> So the conversion should work as-is for shift-jis given we have access 
> to a unicode mapping. I have currently done no real conversion test, 
> though.

As follows from my addition it is clear that shift-jis needs some extra 
care.

Sorry,
Masi