Kaixo!
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:38:12AM -0000, ianlittle(a)yahoo.com wrote:
I am interested to know whether the following
characters
which are part of ETen and the Microsoft Big5 implementation
are so commonplace nowadays in Traditional Chinese "Big5"
locales that they might be considered to be 'de-facto'
part of the common Big5 standards.
0xF9D6, 0xF9D7, 0xF9D8, 0xF9DA, 0xF9DB, 0xF9DC
That is the case on XFree86, *-big5-0 and *-big5.eten-0 are aliases
(now, some fonts may not have them, when using TTF ones there shouldn't be
that problem; and if a bitmap font is missing them, it should be reported
as a bug imho)
In reality are these characters now so widely
implemented
in Tradional Chinese/Taiwanese Big5 locales on all
major information processing platforms (eg windows/unix/mainframe)
that it makes sense to fold them back into the common Big5
character set and to view them as de-facto rather than
characters which are particular to one or more of the Big5
extensions?
As Big5 is in fact a Windows encoding (cp950) I think it is wise to follow
whatever is the current state in Windows platform, same as for iso standards
the authoritative source is the ISO, for Microsoft charsets the authoritative
source should be Microsoft.
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