Japanese and UTF8

IIDA Yosiaki iida@ring.gr.jp
17 Feb 2000 22:31:41 +0900


Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

>>* To assume outside is also UTF-8, but we do convert from/to
>>printable ASCII (with technique such as in RFC 2253).
>Do you mean to escape all non 7bit characters like "\dd" ?
>I wonder why the don't suggest to use "\xdd".
I don't stick to \dd. The point is that the outside is ASCII physically, but it can be intrepretable as other charset logically. So I suggest \xdd also.
>There is still one problem: Are there any control characters outside
>of the 0..127 range? I assume yes and than I need a way to test for
128 through 159 is C1 control in most environment (but not all )-: . -- iida