[zh-l10n] [i18n-chinese] Big5 additional characters

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 The Big5 mapping on unicode.org site and the list of source characters from the original (1984?) Big5 de-facto standard mapping table (in Unihan.txt for Unicode 3.1) doesn't include these characters. 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? --Ian. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Secure all your Web servers now: Get your FREE Guide and learn to: DEPLOY THE LATEST ENCRYPTION, DELIVER TRANSPARENT PROTECTION, and More! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VihfLB/nT7CAA/yigFAA/23wwlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: i18n-chinese-unsubscribe(a)egroups.com URL to this group: http://www.egroups.com/group/i18n-chinese Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/