Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] MR7017: ntdll: Set the correct character map name for Shift JIS

[Zsolt Vadász (＠zsoltiv)]

On Sun Dec 22 17:58:32 2024 +0000, Akihiro Sagawa wrote:
> From my point of view, SJIS is correct.
> Here is an example of SJIS locale usage written by [Red
> Hat](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/727043) and
> [HP-UX](https://web.archive.org/web/20061206132454/http://docs.hp.com/en/UXL10N-9030...)
> (see Appendix A).
> Historically, until around 2000, the Japanese UNIX environment mainly
> used an encoding different from Shift-JIS, called EUC-JP (Extended Unix
> Code for Japanese). Therefore, with the exception of HP-UX, SJIS has
> rarely been used in locale settings.

I'm not well versed in the topic, I wrote this patch, because on two of my systems (Mint and Artix), the charmap file is named SHIFT_JIS rather than SJIS.