Character Repertories Mail Archive: Re: CR> FW: GB 18030 Inf

Re: CR> FW: GB 18030 Information Required

From: ElliottBradshaw@oaktech.com
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 12:32:07 EST

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    Interesting.

    If I read this correctly, then 18030 is a mapping to ALL of Unicode. This
    would make it an encoding, but not a subset.

    If that's right, then we would treat it as a kind of charset, but not as a
    repertoire.

    Your thoughts?

      E.

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    Elliott Bradshaw
    Director, Software Engineering
    Oak Technology Imaging Group
    781 638-7534

                                                                                                    
                        "McDonald, Ira"
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    Hi folks,

    Elliot - the first two white papers (links below) look highly
    useful. Markus Scherer is a Unicode and charsets heavy at IBM.

    Cheers,
    - Ira McDonald
      High North Inc

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Markus Scherer [mailto:markus.scherer@jtcsv.com]
    Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:26 AM
    To: vinay.aggarwal@rebus.co.in; charsets
    Subject: Re: GB 18030 Information Required

    vinay.aggarwal@rebus.co.in wrote:
    > Could you please let me know if following supports the GB18030?
    > - Any web based application
    > - Browser (Internet Explorer/ Netsacpe) based application

    Yes and no. Generally, web-based applications and browsers and related
    protocols do support GB 18030
    and Unicode and various other charsets.

    Specifically, you need to read about
    - charsets, e.g.,
    http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/codepages_and_unicode.html
    - GB 18030, e.g., http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/gb18030.html
    - Unicode, e.g., http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html

    and about the particular applications (and versions of them) that you
    intend
    to use.

    markus



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