RE: Problem with Encode module

Thanks John. The original characters came from Japan, don't know if they
use some proprietary extension of shift_jis. Attached is the zipped
file. Hope it come across correctly this time. It should contains
characters 0x 87408741. 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Delacour [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:02 PM
To: Jianyang Tai; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Problem with Encode module

At 2:40 pm -0700 7/7/06, Jianyang Tai wrote:

>Thanks for the reply. Are you sure those characters don't exist n 
>shift-jis?  Please take a look at the attached text file. It contains 
>two characters ("1" in a circle and "2" in a circle). The file is in 
>shift-jis encoding.

Not possible. Here is an extract from
 
<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/SHIFTJIS.TX
T>
which shows a large gap where you say there are characters assigned. 
I presume the file is produced using some proprietary extension of
Shift_JIS with extra characters added, as is the case with Mac-Japanese,
but I suspect also that your file was corrupted in transit since it
contains characters 0x BD40BD41.  You would need to send it zipped.

0x84BB	0x2530	# BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x84BC	0x2525	# BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY
0x84BD	0x2538	# BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x84BE	0x2542	# BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x889F	0x4E9C	# <CJK>
0x88A0	0x5516	# <CJK>
0x88A1	0x5A03	# <CJK>
0x88A2	0x963F	# <CJK>
0x88A3	0x54C0	# <CJK>

JD