Re: Is there anybody interested in supporting GB18030 in debian?
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:54:13AM -0700, foka@debian.org wrote:
>
> Is there an Internet site published by the government about GB18030? I have
> no idea where to find more information about it, whereas everything is
> clearly laid out on www.unicode.org and even www.cns11643.gov.tw (?).
I did not see any. In my opinion, there should be at least a referal
(standard) GB18030 font come with the standard. but...
> Is there similar website about GB18030? I would be very interested to learn
> more about it. Thanks!
>
There are mapping table on IBM's icu source and some summary:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icu/source/tools/makeconv/gb18030/gb18030.html
Should be enough, I guess. But it is a shame that we have to
get knowledge about the standard from a commercial company like
IBM instead from some PRC official sites. Afterall, it is a
national standard.
Kudo for IBM though.
A Red Flag guy wrote a tech note in Chinese:
http://d23xapp2.cn.ibm.com/developerWorks/linux/i18n/gb18030/index.shtml
An review on the old, March version is at:
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/cjkv/pdf/GB18030_Summary.pdf
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Best regard
hashao
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