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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:38:54 +0900
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From: "Toshio 'ADAM' Kudo" <adamtk AT altavista DOT net>
To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:53:30 -0600 (CST)"	
 <9812172253 DOT AA15992 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject: Re: patches to 2.02
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com


  Hi.

>Would it make sense to make the character set changes run time comparisons
>to see if it is a PC98 system?  I'm not sure if anyone is attached

  At run time, I don't change the character set, but only console I/O
(use BIOS, or thru DOS). :-)


  For your information, lower part (0-127 decimal) of `Microsft Kanji
Encoding Scheme' (aka Shift-JIS) are as same as ASCII, except 0x5C (in
ASCII, it looks `back-shash', in Shift JIS, it looks `Yen').  And
higher part (128-255 decimal) are used for `Kanji', `Katakana'.  This
scheme is not used *only* on PC98 but also DOS/V.
  Similarly, in the Oriental country such as Korea, China, higher part
are used for their own character set (uses their own DBCS), and lower
part are almost as same as ASCII.

  So, I think djgpp will work well in almost countries, on almost
machines, not need to apply large (and/or many) patches, if djgpp uses
*only* lower part (0-127 decimal) chars except it *needs* higer one. 
And `standard' control codes (0-31 decimal) too.

  Don't you think so?

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 ADAM, as Toshio KUDO
 GCG02632 AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp / adamtk AT altavista DOT net