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            <td>Re: Shift-JIS NEC/IBM discussion</td>
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            <td>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:56:33 +0000</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Mark Zeren <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mzeren@vmware.com">&lt;mzeren@vmware.com&gt;</a></td>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AFAIK there
            isn't a standard way to roundtrip this, not even a de facto
            one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Picking one
            way to do so seems overreaching as the user may have
            additional constraints we aren't aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The building
            blocks could be providing NEC-only and IBM-only variants as
            encoding forms, or providing a way to customize code
            mappings. (edited)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Or both.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">True
            roundtripping here also seems to be of limited use, because
            you're unlikely to have mixed IBM and NEC characters. I
            think most of the time what you want is the ability to pick
            which of those two will Unicode-&gt;SJIS produce (edited)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">rmf [1 day
            ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So you would
            do e.g. cp932 -&gt; Unicode -&gt; jisIBM or whatever that's
            called.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sdowney [22
            hours ago]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks for
            clarifying this! I hate when I know something that isn't
            true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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