On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:54:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:17:32PM +0800, ha shao wrote: > Normally standard organizations (international, national or industrial) > do not publish their standards for free. That's why you can rarely find > any formal standard on internet. You should be able to buy the published > gb18030 standard from "the publisher of China standards".
Yes, but... It is China and it's a national standard. They are paid by the government funding. As a Chinese, I really hope that the archivement of any government funded researches should be free to use for at least China citizens... okey, when national security related matter are not included. anyway, the standard is not from some non-profit organization. The work is paid by the government and the government is paid by the people. And it is internet era. The original work should be in electronic form. It's not like put a electronic copy will really a big cost. Now, even unicode 3.1 is online. It used to cost a bundle. -- Best regard hashao -- | This message was re-posted from [email protected] | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
