Hi Alan, Thanks. I appreciate your response.
Yes, I think GB13080 must continue to be GB13080-2000 for now. I was initially hoping to add a new character set with the name GB13080-2005. But I guess your suggestion of internally mapping one of the two versions (2000 or 2005) to "GB13080", based on the value of a new System property, version 2000 being the default, could be a better approach. Pushkar N Kulkarni, Developer, IBM Runtimes Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger W. Dijkstra -----"Alan Bateman" <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: ----- To: "Pushkar N Kulkarni" <pushkar...@in.ibm.com>, i18n-...@openjdk.java.net From: "Alan Bateman" <alan.bate...@oracle.com> Date: 11/16/2021 04:00PM Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: <i18n dev> Supporting charset GB18030-2005 On 15/11/2021 17:53, Pushkar N Kulkarni wrote: > Hi there, > > > OpenJDK currently supports version 2000 of the GB18030 > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030 ) character set viz. GB18030-2000. > The character mappings corresponding to Unicode codepoints '\u1E3F' and > '\uE7C7' were swapped in a new version of the character set named > GB18030-2005. I learn that this corrected a mistake in version 2000. > > OpenJDK does not support version 2005 as yet. Can someone please help me with > reasons for the same, if any? > > We do have users requesting for 2005 support. While Linux (RHEL 7/8) has > moved to supporting GB18030-2005 via glibc, Windows 10 and AIX 7.2 still have > GB18030-2000 base. That means OpenJDK cannot move to GB18030-2005 base as > yet. However, we can support both the versions until all the supported > platforms move to GB18030-2005 base. Would that be an acceptable proposition? > > If we can have an enhancement request opened, I'd be glad to contribute the > GB18030-2005 charset implementation. If I read this correctly, then your proposal is for GB18030 to continue to be GB18030-2000 but you would introduce a new charset GB18030 map to GB18030-2005 for the new version. Are you also proposing a system property or some means to have GB18030 be GB18030-2005 until the time is right to make it the default? -Alan
