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From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
To: jasonr@gnu.org
Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:26:54 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100816.182654.383069926.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C694638.6000006@gnu.org>


> GBK is a backwards compatible extension of GB with more characters.
> I'm not sure that Big5 has an equivalent.

Such an extension exists; it is called Big5-plus.  However, AFAIK,
nobody has ever used it, and today it is obsolete since Unicode is
much better.


    Werner





  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 11:09 bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8 jidanni
2010-08-16 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 12:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 12:58 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 13:17   ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 13:39 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 14:07   ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 16:26     ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2010-08-16 17:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 15:27 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 17:41   ` Eli Zaretskii

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