>>>>> "AM" == Adrian Mariano <rad...@cox.net> writes:
AM> Thanks for your commend on GNU units.  

>> Gentlemen, can you imagine that to get Taiwanese pings (坪), I had to
>> use Japanese tsubos!

AM> Sounds like a terrible situation.  The volunteers that work on
AM> units comprise simply myself, and as I don't know Chinese, or the
AM> Taiwanese system in question, I am dubious about my ability to do a
AM> proper job of it.  If you would like to write the needed material, I
AM> would be delighted to include it.

OK, it's deal. Over the coming week I will research all the Taiwanese
units and send you a patch.  (特此代表我們台灣 (I'll be the Taiwan
ambassador to the units program) Muhahahah.)

>> Also it would be a great breakthrough if the units program were to allow
>> real UTF-8 台尺 etc.

AM> I have done this.  Check out version 1.88a located at

AM> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/units/units-1.88a.tar.gz

OK, I will be checking it out soon.

AM> and let me know if the UTF-8 support works for you.  As far as I know,
AM> nobody but me has tested it, which is why it's in the alpha tree
AM> instead of elsewhere.  I added the obvious UTF-8 chinese characters 
AM> to units.dat as well.



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