- From: Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xnetinc.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:21:55 -0700
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
Yung, I have added GB18030 support to xIUA. It looks like it GB18030 is fairly complete except I could not find the mappings for Yi or Hangul symbols U+A000 to U+D7A3. While Yi is a minor language, Korean is not. I think that a multilingual solution should include full Korean support. Carl > > > > > > The only way to sanely implement a multi-lingual site is using > > > > Unicode. > > I think you can also use GB18030 these days, if you care about > > GB2312 back ward > > compatability. > > I don't expect to see GB18030 to pick up the range of non-Chinese scripts > that Unicode has. Yes the assignments are automatic but it practice will > they be used? GB18030 is more awkward to process that most MBCS scripts. > You can not always test the character length from the first character. It > is also difficult to determine the start of a character when you access a > string randomly. > > ICU http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ supports GB18030 > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/u-china.html?dwzone=unicode > but I have not added yet added support in xIUA. > http://www.xnetinc.com/xiua/ Maybe you can help me. It there a good > algorithm for finding the start of a character without going to the > beginning of the string? > >
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