>> So if we want to do a round trip conversion between
>> EUC-JP and UTF-8, we have to choose either U+FF5E OR U+301C. We have
>> chosen U+FF5E. If we change the mapping, many existing applications
>> would break.
>
> I heard a request a few times for an additional one-directional conversion
> from U+301C to EUC-JP (0xa1c1). It should not break existing applications.
> We already have non-round trip conversions for IBM and NEC extended
> characters in SJIS. The policy seems not so strict for me.
Doesn't breaking round-trip conversion between EUC-JP and UTF-8 itself
break backward compatibility?
I think what we can do best here is, adding new encoding and default
conversion.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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