[icu-support] Java iso-2022-jp support and Outlook

[Rob S. <rsh...@me...>]

I have been affected by a bug in Java's iso-2022-jp support. Well,
really it's a Windows (Outlook) bug. 

From the bug report: "The root cause of the problem is that the Windows
platforms use Code Page 932 which is incompatible with the JIS standard
(JIS X 0208:1997) in two ways.

1) It added more characters to the reserved space of JIS X 0208.
2) Windows uses their own JIS X 0208 to Unicode mappings for several
characters."

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6173388

In Java 1.6, the charset x-windows-iso2022jp has been added, which fixes
the problem. I'm stuck with Java 1.5, so I was wondering if icu4j can
help?

Rob

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