On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:27:03PM +0800, ha shao wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:17:10AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As rumor said, GB18030 maybe is just on the road to Unicode... So somebody, > > mark-ably the author of Unicode-Linux FAQ, doesn't have much interests to > > let > > XFree86 see GB18030. And we know he's a strong vocal in the XFree86 world. > > ;) > > We have to bring our users usable environment. If mark-ably doesn't like > it, we will roll in ourselves. GB18030 is mandatory in mainland. If it > is not supported, mainland user won't use it or think it is not complete.
Agreed. Besides, even I may not agree with the Communist government, I highly commend their actions for enforcing their GB18030 standard. This way, at least one good thing that has come out, whether related or not, is that Unicode 3.1 added a whopping 40,000+ CJK characters. :-) We Chinese and our language are not going to pushed around by foreign programmers who only want convenience and won't worry about the incompleteness of the CJK charset in an international standard. Competition is good. ;-) Is there an Internet site published by the government about GB18030? I have no idea where to find more information about it, whereas everything is clearly laid out on www.unicode.org and even www.cns11643.gov.tw (?). Is there similar website about GB18030? I would be very interested to learn more about it. Thanks! Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ -- | This message was re-posted from [email protected] | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
