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| | CODING.INF |
 | | In the standard it is defined by a pair of decimal numbers which place it in the 94 x 94 matrix used in that standard. |
| | Well, hankaku kana is from the button-boots era of Japanese computing, but Microsoft, in their Infinite Wisdom, decided that it was terribly necessary, once the full kanji set became available as a two-byte code, to enable files and text for/from legacy systems to co-exist with the newer form. |
| | And thus arose "Shift-JIS", where the codes in the JIS X 0208 standard are shifted aside to make room for the old hankakukana codes from JIS201. |
| www.csse.monash.edu.au /~jwb/coding_inf.html (1349 words) |
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