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From: takagi@icot.JUNET (Takagi Shigeyuki)
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Subject: from 16bit to 8bit/7bit (In English)
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Date: 10 Jun 86 01:46:37 GMT
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Thanks to Ogawa-san and other people for testing the kanji code.
I found a problem as a CIT-600 terminal user.

In the current discussion, shift in from Kanji 16bit to JIS 8bit
is mainly concerned.  BUT, what kind of terminals you usually
use ?  If you use a terminal which supports both ASCII and JIS
(I believe this is the most popular case), which mode do you
prefer ?

I use ASCII mode and hate the YEN-sign is dislayed instead of
backslash.  Especially for TeX user, backslash is important but
YEN-sign is not.

Why don't you use " shift in to ASCII"  instead of " shift in to JIS" .

For old (or mis-understood) JIS terminals, " shift in to ASCII" 
works in many cases.

How do you think of this idea ?

S.Takagi
ICOT 4th lab.