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@yahoo.com Reply-To: i18n-chinese@yahoogroups.com To: i18n-chinese@yahoogroups.com 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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