Doesn't UTF-8 handle all that stuff? At least, going by those codes, it looks like it's referring to kanji that's in JIS X 0213, which Unicode encompasses?
Or okay, does Shift_JIS not handle the JIS x 0213 stuff, so they use the code, which tells the stuff with broader encoding what they were? Or maybe it's for stuff that was originally written with versions of Shift_JIS or whathaveyou that didn't support certain characters at the time?
Edit: It looks like, in practice, instead of having the kanji written out, it has a .png of the kanji with that code in the alt= area?
So for 樺, instead of displaying that, it has http://www.aozora.gr.jp/gaiji/1-87/1-87-62.png? I guess when they first digitized it they were using an early version of Shift_JIS?
Or okay, does Shift_JIS not handle the JIS x 0213 stuff, so they use the code, which tells the stuff with broader encoding what they were? Or maybe it's for stuff that was originally written with versions of Shift_JIS or whathaveyou that didn't support certain characters at the time?
Edit: It looks like, in practice, instead of having the kanji written out, it has a .png of the kanji with that code in the alt= area?
So for 樺, instead of displaying that, it has http://www.aozora.gr.jp/gaiji/1-87/1-87-62.png? I guess when they first digitized it they were using an early version of Shift_JIS?
Edited: 2011-03-06, 7:05 pm