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From: Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com>
Subject: Re: Chinese characters support
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:54:41 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030513.195441.74751756.acmuller@gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38ytb3od7.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

> And for XML in Chinese, utf-8  wastes lots of space.  To be practical,
> we often use big5 for XML files with Chinese.

That's fine, if all you are doing is Chinese. The documents in my project 
include terms from over 15 languages, including Tibetan, Nepalese, Sanskrit,
Pali, and several European languages. Unicode has codepoints for these
characters, while Big5 (and other Chinese codesets) do not.

Chuck

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5730.1052348993.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-10 14:26 ` Chinese characters support Kai Großjohann
2003-05-10 16:17   ` Charles Muller
2003-05-10 16:45     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-10 17:31       ` Charles Muller
2003-05-10 18:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-11  2:11           ` Charles Muller
2003-05-11  3:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-11 13:59               ` Charles Muller
     [not found]               ` <mailman.5976.1052661651.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:29                 ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-12 19:58                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13  7:40                 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-13  9:57                   ` acmuller
2003-05-13 10:02                   ` Robin Hu
2003-05-15  8:07                     ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-10 19:24         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-11  2:15           ` Charles Muller
2003-05-11  3:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5956.1052619415.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:56             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13  3:36               ` Charles Muller
2003-05-14  3:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.6084.1052797097.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13  7:05                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-14  6:14                 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-14 16:27                   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-14 21:07                     ` Jason Rumney
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5927.1052587973.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:27         ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-13  7:40         ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-13 10:11           ` acmuller
2003-05-13 10:54           ` Charles Muller [this message]
     [not found]           ` <mailman.6097.1052826249.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-15  8:07             ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-10 17:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5936.1052589798.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13  7:40       ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-14  3:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.6156.1052882447.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-15  8:07           ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-16 11:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-12 23:05   ` Michael Na Li
2003-05-13  7:02     ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5922.1052583563.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13  7:40     ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-07 23:08 Gaoyan Xie
2003-05-08  6:27 ` Charles Muller
     [not found] ` <mailman.5739.1052375326.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-08  7:33   ` Robin Hu
2003-05-10 14:28   ` Kai Großjohann

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