On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:15:57AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > I thought this is because
> > the "living" languages are all restricted to 16bit? Hmm... i might be wrong.
>
> Taiwan CNS 11643 character set has about 47000 ideograms.
> Recently, Japan came to have a new standard JIS X 0213. T
Hi,
At Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:11:02 -0700,
Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To add to that list, China has the new GB18030-2000 standard
> (locale zh_CN.GB18030) which also contains many characters beyond Unicode.
Interesting. I will have to mention it in my "Introduction to I18N"
document
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:25:11PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> BTW, I think GB18030 would be a _character set_, not _encoding_.
> If so, we won't have zh_CN.GB18030 locale.
In fact it is both, AFAICT; GB18030 defines the set of characters, and
the way to encode them. Just like GBK.
> Exam
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:21:26PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> I will agree with developers who dare to hard-code UTF-8 instead of
> wchar_t, if they abolish the support of 8bit (or 7bit) encoding by the
> softwares which they develop. I mean, if they need their (European-
> language speakers
Hi,
At Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:28:25 -0600,
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for the reason I don't use wchat_t, not all the world works in C.
> Most other languages have roll-your-own support for multi-byte character
> sets or provide Unicode support.
This is true that languages other
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:00:41AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> For conversion from number of characters to number of columns, you
> will need to use wcwidth() or wcswidth().
I'm interested in this. I used to work the th_TH locale for glibc, and
I'd like to know how to describe this conversio
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