big5 and big5-hkscs

Hi Shawn,

I was hoping you could clear something up for me regarding big5. As far as  
I can tell Internet Explorer treats big5 and big5-hkscs the same. When  
generating all the possible multi-byte sequences (0x81 to 0xFE as lead,  
0x40 to 0x7E and 0xA1 to 0xFE as trail) I get 19782 code points of which  
6217 are in PUA in Internet Explorer. Is it still the case (as suggested  
by http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hkscs/ and elsewhere) that these map to  
different glyphs depending on the user's locale?

Other questions you could really help me with:

1. If they do indeed map differently, is there a way to get more  
information as to how they map differently?
2. Is there information available what the best Unicode code points for  
these PUA code points are?

I did not email this to the charset list as it seemed off-topic. I did  
however cc www-archive as this information might be relevant to other  
people. Hope that's okay.

Kind regards,


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:19:39 UTC