--- In i18n-chinese@y..., Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@m...> wrote:
Kaixo!
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:38:12AM -0000, ianlittle@y... 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.
Many thanks for the quick response!
Just to clarify - by Big5 here I mean to refer to the de-facto standard for which I guess there is no authorative source other than some kind of periodic re-appraisal of which sets of characters minimally are expected to be part of any Big5 implementation. It seems that originally these 7 characters weren't listed as part of the Big5 repertoire and that over time as vendors and extensions implementations became available these characters became widespread enough that it might be reasonable to assume that these have become de-facto absorbed into the common Big5 repertoire. Also, do you consider the graphical (box/line) characters in the range 0xF9DD-0xF9DE inclusive also to be part of the common Big5 repertoire. Just to underscore - by common here I mean to suggest common across all major platforms as opposed to common within the most prevalent client platform (ie. win32)
--Ian.
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