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Re: The C locale
On Sep 24 18:37, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
> 2009/9/24 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> > On Sep 24 16:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
> >> 2009/9/22 Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>:
> >> > Let's use the Windows "ANSI" codepage as the character set for the C
> >> > locale, for both the conversion functions and filenames. This means
> >> > CP1252 on Western systems, CP1251 on Cyrillic ones, CP932 on Japanese
> >> > ones, and so on.
> >>
> >> I oppose the approach (the ANSI codepage is used at C locale) because
> >> CP932 (the codepage for Japanese) is hostile to the UNIX-like tools.
> >>
> >> The reason is that the CP932 format contains a lot of meta characters
> >> as follows.
> >>
> >> single character of CP932:
> >> /[\x00-\x7F\xA0-\xDF]|[\x81-\x9F\xE0-\xFC][\x40-\x7E\x80-\xFC]/
> >
> > I don't understand. Are you saying that the single character in CP932
> > consists of 12 bytes? As far as I can see, CP932 is S-JIS, which
> > is a just a simple double byte character set. What am I missing.
>
> - CP932 (Shift_JIS) has 1byte character and 2bytes character.
>
> - The range of 1byte character is 0x00-0x7F and 0xA0-0xDF.
>
> - The range of first byte of 2byte character is 0x80-0x9F and 0xE0-0xFC.
>
> - The range of second byte of 2byte character is 0x40-7E and 0x80-0xFC.
> This includes "[", "\", "]", "^", "`", "{", "|", "}".
Ok, thanks for your examples, they show neatly where the problem is.
As you might know, the codepage 20932 (EUC-JP) is also not the same
as the UNIX EUC_JP implementation. The JIS-X-0212 three byte codes
are folded into two-byte sequences as described in a comment in
strfuncs.cc:
/* Unfortunately, the Windows eucJP codepage 20932 is not really 100%
compatible to eucJP. It's a cute approximation which makes it a
doublebyte codepage.
The JIS-X-0212 three byte codes (0x8f,0xa1-0xfe,0xa1-0xfe) are folded
into two byte codes as follows: The 0x8f is stripped, the next byte is
taken as is, the third byte is mapped into the lower 7-bit area by
masking it with 0x7f. So, for instance, the eucJP code 0x8f,0xdd,0xf8
becomes 0xdd,0x78 in CP 20932.
To be really eucJP compatible, we have to map the JIS-X-0212 characters
between CP 20932 and eucJP ourselves. */
My question is this: Is the S-JIS implementation on UNIX systems
also using a different implementation to avoid using characters
from the ASCII range? If so, can't we change the __sjis_wctomb
and __sjis_mbtowc functions in the same manner as the __eucjp_wctomb
and __eucjp_mbtowc functions to get a safer implementation?
Corinna
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