Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!MRC%PANDA@sumex-aim.stanford.edu From: MRC%PANDA@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: locales Message-ID: <2293@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 17:44:15 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2293 Posted: Mon Jan 12 17:44:15 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 01:02:57 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 15 If by "Asian (16-bit) codes" you are referring to the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) character set, this is a 14-bit character set and not a 16 bit one. Also, it only uses the code values which have printable representations in ASCII. That is, the lowest value of either byte is 21h and the highest value is 7Eh. The first JIS character, a blank, is therefore 2121h. The last JIS character is 717Eh and is a level 2 kanji ("level 1" are the commonly-used chinese characters (kanji), "level 2" are much more rare and most native Japanese only know a few). There are holes in the character set as well. How are shift-in and shift-out effected? I'm aware of at least 5 ways this can be done! -------