Charlie, GB18030 is designed to support all Unicode characters. It has the capacity to also encode additional characters. I know of no plans to do so.
I don't think it will have much affect on Unicode. Most systems that handle GB18030 will want to convert it to Unicode first to reduce processing overhead. With most of the common MBCS code pages you can determine the length of the character from the first byte. With GB18030 you some times have to check the first two characters. UTF-8 for example is an MBCS character set but if I am going backwards through a string I can do so. With GB18030 I must start over from the beginning of the string to find the start of the previous character. It is smaller that UTF-8 for Chinese and larger for anyone else. Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie Jolly > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GB18030 > > > GB18030 > > In what ways will this effect Unicode? > > Does it contain anything that Unicode doesn't? > > > >
