At lease those characters are not supported by Solaris 8 .
the mapping from big5 code to unicode as follows:
F9D6 7881
F9D7 92B9
F9D8 88CF
F9D9 58BB
F9DA 6052
F9DB 7CA7
F9DC 5AFA
Mike
From: ianlittle(a)yahoo.com
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Subject: [i18n-chinese] Big5 additional characters
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:38:33 -0000
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.
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