Hi, On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:56:26 +0800 Zhe Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because you know, Chinese standards of HongKong and Taiwan use such >area to store extra characters that aren't in Unicode yet. For example >Taiwan has more than 30,000 Traditional Chinese chars in Unicode plane >15, HongKong has more than 5000 chars in U+E000-U+F8EF area. So it's >mandatory for them to support these PUA areas.
"yet" - Hmm, PRC/Taiwanese government is going to push these characters to Unicode standard, and stop to use PUA in future? In the other words, the mapping between PUA and PRC/Taiwanese national code should be kept/maintained/kept in future? Or, PUA is just used for temporal use? If the answer is "YES" (the utilization of PUA will be stopped in future), the best way for proper Unicode implementation is just waiting for the day Unicode standards include these characters. My anxiety is that: if we write a documentation including PUA charcode today, and read it after the official inclusion of the characters... we cannot search a string without the extra mapping table of PUA code and Unicode codepoint. And, we need a switch to enable/disable to use the extra mapping, because there are people using the PUA codepoints for different purpose. Is it the role of iconv? Regards, mpsuzuki _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list