Hi, This is about the DBCS character sets cp950, cp949, etc. that might get registered with IANA by Microsoft.
Isn't it great to have standards? Eike ----- Forwarded message from George Rhoten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:24:56 -0600 Subject: Re: [icu-support] IANA and cp950/cp949 From: George Rhoten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That seems rather unfortunate :-( Many people get confused about what is codepage 950. There is more than one Big5 implementation. Sun's Java uses cp950 to mean ibm-950, and Sun's Java has another mapping table called Big5, which is different from cp950. Since Microsoft wants this alias I presume that Microsoft wants cp950 to map to something like windows-950, which is closer to ibm-1373. From the point of view of IANA, this may be the Big5 alias. In order to add confusion to this problem, Microsoft overloads the meaning of windows-950. You can download a patch to add HKSCS support to windows-950 on your Windows machine. So on some machines, windows-950 means Big5, while on others it means Big5-HKSCS, which contains incompatible Unicode mappings with each other. Sun's Java also uses cp949 to mean ibm-949, which is different from windows-949. Oh, and there is more than one flavor of ibm-949, and Sun's Java uses cp949c to denote the alternate ibm table. What a mess :-( George Rhoten IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU San Jos�, CA, USA http://www.icu-project.org/ http://icu.sourceforge.net/ [... ed: snipped whole lotta blank lines, initial poster's mail included with the reply and sourceforge's advertisement ...] _______________________________________________ icu-support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icu-support ----- End forwarded message ----- -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter bedevilled I18N transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
