CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Code-Processing Tools

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compiled and then run on specic OSes, it is a web service with a CGI program under the

hood.

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e underlying CGI program is written in Perl.

Like JChar, the CJKV Character Set Server supports both coded and noncoded character

sets. And, you can decide whether you’d like a le emailed to you—automatically uuen-

coded for safety if there are any eight-bit characters used in the selected encoding—or

else display the character set directly in your web browser, which can be easily copied and

pasted.

JCode—Text File Examination Tool

Every programmer—or even nonprogrammer types with enough interest—may occa-

sionally like to take a closer peek at Japanese codes and how they relate to each other. e

non-Japanese analogy is a hex dump of a le. However, since most Japanese characters

consist of two bytes, a normal hex dump may not be very useful. Such a tool designed for

use with Japanese text should treat two-byte characters as single entities. It should also

make use of all the routines for converting between the various encoding methods, but

instead of converting characters, it lists each character, along with its associated value in

a variety of encodings.

A tool I wrote, called JCode, lls this gap, and oers two basic functions, indicated as

follows:

Accepts actual encoded Japanese characters in a variety of encodings, and then per-•

forms the equivalent ...