Re: minus sign implemetation on sjis

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On Friday, 12 August 2016 09:59:04 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
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> set minussign is a very nice new feature!
> This is what I want to use for a long time!
> 
> 
> In sjis encoding, minussign code is 0x817c.
> This is a Japanese Kanji character with wide width.
> 
> >From Ethan suggestion, I tried this in windows, qt, and wxt.
> Looking are not good compared to those on utf8.
> 
> In my opinion, it is better that this feature is not implemented in sjis encoding.
> Utf8 is now widely used even on windows in Japanese. 
> 
> Therefore Japanese people who want to use this feature will use utf8 encoding 
> if this feature will dropped on sjis encoding.   

OK. I will disable the character mapping for SJIS and add a comment explaining
that the half-width/full-width nature of the Japanese character set makes the
special minus sign look bad.

> In addition using this option in sjis encoding, + character represent half width while  
> - character represent full width.

The "set minus" command only affects the unary minus,
that is, the character in front of a negative number.
It does not affect the arithmetic operation symbol for subtraction.

	thanks for testing,

		Ethan


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> Tatsuro