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From: nisimura@srava.UUCP (Tohru Nisimura [peg])
Newsgroups: fj.kanji,fj.junet
Subject: Kanji escape sequence &  SRA (in English)
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Date: 6 Oct 86 05:47:46 GMT
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Hello, Net People.

SRA (Software Research Associates, Inc.) decided that all JIS form Kanji
articles from the company will have following Escape Sequence.

        Kanji-To        ESC $ B
        JISRoman-To     ESC ( J
        ASCII-To        ESC ( B

Because some confusions were there in the company, articles from there had
some many sorts of escape sequence. But, SRA will support above correct
kanji sequence only from 11/1.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, we know some many silly applications can not handle ESC $ B or ESC ( J.
However, there is only a few difference between JIS 1978 and JIS 1983.
Thus SRA does not distinct two. Instead, SRA recognizes two are same
" INVOKE G0-buffer-DESIGNATED 2-byte kanji Graphic character." 

And ESC ( H sequence is INCORRECT/ILLEGAL/BOGUS. Do not use it.

In addition, every TAB/NEWLINE character will be excluded from kanji sequences
in outgoing articles FOR SAFE.
                     ^^^^^^^^
If incoming articles may include CONTROL characters within kanji sequences,
SRA will be able to handle correctly, from 11/1.
Needless to say, such CONTROL characters should be recognized correctly even if
they are included within kanji sequence.
However, some many silly kanji applications can not handle such situation.

If you would not able to read kanji articles from SRA correctly, you have
bogus application.
In such case, please translate them using SED. :-> 

P.S.
And we have some complaints with application makers. DO NOT MAKE any kanji
applications WITHOUT code system knowledge !!!!


                T. (void *) Nishimura
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