Re: ASCII and JIS X 0201 Roman - the backslash problem

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <200205100527.g4A5RbC22604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> I am interested in how European people succeeded to migrate from ISO 646
> variants into ISO 8859.  Yen Sign Problem is exactly a problem of ISO 646,
> because "0x5c = YEN SIGN" comes from JIS X 0201 Roman, which is Japanese
> variant of ISO 646.
> 

Well, for one thing we never had to do that in the context of MS-DOS
et al (which is where the \ as path separator came in), because IBM PC
had its own 8-bit character set from the very beginning -- thus we
never used ISO 646 on those systems.

As for conversion, I suspect the biggest problem was probably C
source code and the like, where I guess one could do pattern matching
(i.e. "is this character inside a string or not")?

Doesn't mean it solved all problems, but some it did...

	-hpa
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