Top Ten List: Reasons To Abandon Shift-JIS Encoding
In the spirit of encouraging developers, especially those in Japan, to provide better or more broad support for Unicode, which usually entails abandoning Shift-JIS encoding, I became inspired this evening to put together a Top Ten List that provides various Reasons To Abandon Shift-JIS Encoding, similar to the Unicode Beyond-BMP one that I prepared a couple years ago.
While humor is intended in such Top Ten Lists, there is also a serious side to this issue: Given that today's systems work together, by clinging to Shift-JIS, developers can adversely affect other systems that do support Unicode.
Enjoy!
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Cangji Fonts
Brand: 仓迹字库
Area: China
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JT Foundry
Brand: 翰字铸造
Area: Taiwan, China
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Handmadefont
Brand:
Area: Estonia
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·千图字体
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HyFont Studio
Brand: 新美字库
Area: China
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Minrui Type
Brand: 敏锐字库
Area: China
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