Does/Will/Might Jade handle Japanese text?

[David Megginson <ak117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Gushee writes:

 > Anyway, I have an occasional and growing need to use Japanese in my
 > work, and so I've been thinking about how or if I might be able to
 > format SGML docs including Japanese text. I suppose the DTD needs
 > to be set up to use a Japanese character set, but let's leave that
 > aside for the moment. What I'd like to know is, can Jade currently
 > process documents containing Japanese text (preferably EUC
 > encoding, but I can convert it if necessary)? Or, as my reading of
 > the docs suggests, is Japanese support possible but not currently
 > implemented? And if it's the latter, is there any development
 > effort underway?

Full support is already there (and has been from the first version of
Jade), since Jade is built on top of SP.  Here's a extract from SP's
feature list:

* Supports multi-byte character sets
     + Parser can use 16-bit characters internally
     + 16-bit characters can be used in tag names and other markup
     + Supports ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) using both UCS-2 and UTF-8
     + Supports Japanese character sets (Shift-JIS, EUC)


All the best,


David

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