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

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Glenn Maynard writes:

> The problem isn't the conversion costs, it's the fact that Windows will
> continue to use the characters incorrectly, and will reintroduce the
> problem continuously.

How can the Windows specific problem possibly affect us?

In most cases, Japanese Windows users will send Shift_JIS encoded text
for a while; Linux programs will continue to display Shift_JIS 0x5C as
YEN SIGN. So there is no problem here.

Later, when Japanese Windows users publish web pages in UTF-8, if they
use U+005C for the YEN SIGN, and thus display salaries of "30000 \",
then it's *their* problem because *their* software produces non-W3C
compliant HTML or XML.

In either case, there is no problem for Linux users.

Bruno

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