> I recall a discussion in which someone explained that things are messy for
> Japanese because there's not really just one version of SJIS; there are
> several, because various groups extended the original standard in not-
> quite-compatible ways. In turn this means that there's not really one
> well-defined conversion to/from Unicode
That's true.
> --- which is the reason why
> allowing custom conversions seemed like a good idea. I don't know
> whether anyone over there is actually using custom conversions, but
> I'd be hesitant to just nuke the feature altogether.
By Googling I found an instance which is using CREATE CONVERSION
(Japanese article).
http://grep.blog49.fc2.com/blog-entry-87.html
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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