> On 26 May 2025, at 18:07, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > On 2025-05-24 Sa 8:58 PM, DEVOPS_WwIT wrote:
>> The GB18030 encoding standard is a mandatory Chinese character encoding >> standard required by regulations. Software sold and used in China must >> support GB18030, with its latest version being the 2023 edition. The primary >> advantage of GB18030 is that most Chinese characters require only 2 bytes >> for storage, whereas UTF-8 necessitates 3 bytes for the same characters. >> This makes GB18030 significantly more storage-efficient compared to UTF-8 in >> terms of space utilization. > > Given this, removing it seems like a non-starter. Agreed, it seems very unappealing to remove something so important to such a large userbase. -- Daniel Gustafsson
