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From: kato@takashi.uucp (Akira Kato)
Newsgroups: fj.kanji
Subject: Re: from 16bit to 8bit/7bit (In English)
Message-ID: < 936@takashi.uucp> 
Date: 10 Jun 86 08:58:21 GMT
Date-Received: 10 Jun 86 10:49:14 GMT
References: < 110@icot.JUNET> 
Reply-To: kato@cs.titech.junet (Akira Kato)
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Organization: Tokyo Institute of Tech., Dept. of Computer Science, Japan
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In article < 110@icot.JUNET>  Takagi san writes:
> 
>  Why don't you use "shift in to ASCII" instead of "shift in to JIS".
> 
   I think that the difference of ASCII and JIS-ROMAJI is not so large,
and few problem except the terminal state would be occur. This is also
depend the capability of the terminals. 

   Therefore, how about this ?
o News poster can use one of them/both ESC sequence as he prefer.
o News readers should determine
  1)	ESC-(-J  -->   ESC-(-B (or other code for the terminal)
  2)	ESC-(-B  -->   ESC-(-J (		    ''		     )
  3)	No special translation
  according to the capability of the terminal. This selection can be done
  by shell-environment and/or termcap entry.

   Of cause, this translation requires another hack to rn/readnews.

   Including this problem, we had better have a standard of termcap entry
for the KANJI handling capability. Does anyone knows any standards ?

						Akira Kato
					Tokyo Institute of Technology,
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