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Dr. Ken Lunde | Senior Computer Scientist | Adobe Systems Incorporated Top Ten List: Reasons To Abandon Shi!-JIS Encoding


Top Ten List: Reasons To Abandon Shi!-JIS Encoding

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10—Shi!-JIS supports only 11,280 code points

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09—Non–full-width Latin support is limited to ASCII (JIS X 0201)


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08—Only JIS X 0208 is supported



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06— 07—Conflicting OS-specific definitions of Shi!-JIS




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06—Four Jōyō Kanji (塡剝𠮟頰) are not supported by Shi!-JIS 07—Conflicting OS-specific definitions of Shi!-JIS




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05—107 Jinmei-yō Kanji are not supported by Shi!-JIS





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04—Relatively small (2,444 code points) user-defined range






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03—Unicode, not Shi!-JIS, is supported by default in OpenType







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01— 02—JIS X 0213 defines a Shi!-JIS implementation, but is unused








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01—By clinging to Shi!-JIS, you hamper Unicode-based systems 02—JIS X 0213 defines a Shi!-JIS implementation, but is unused








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01—By clinging to Shi!-JIS, you hamper Unicode-based systems 02—JIS X 0213 defines a Shi!-JIS implementation, but is unused








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