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| | [Ping] Japanese encoding schemes and the WWW |
 | | Let's combine the maps for all three encoding systems, together with ASCII (which we'll represent as a "first byte"), and see what we get. |
 | | The ASCII region shown on the map corresponds to the subset of ASCII understood by HTML: all of the printable characters from 33 to 127, tab (9), linefeed (10), carriage-return (13), and space (32). |
 | | When text is encoded with EUC, it does indeed stand out from ASCII -- but it then becomes indistinguishable from any other locale-specific EUC encoding, such as EUC-encoded Chinese or Korean, for instance. |
| www.lfw.org /text/jp-www.html (637 words) |
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