Yao Zhang wrote:

>Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
>
>
>As for GB18030, the last time I read is that it is now only has
>Unicode BMP equivalent part defined: CJK Unified Ideographs
>and CJK Unified Ideographs Ext A, and others.  Ext B is not
>currently in yet but it definitely will be.
>
Not true. That is what I thought before. The GB18030 have include beyond
BMP from the day one and is specified in the page 5 section 7.3 in the
specification. I also missed that in our first implementation. Plan 1-16
ARE included in GB18030. Several people in the unicode mailling list
also point that out.

>
>
>Since mozilla is already using Unicode internally, the support for
>GB18030 should be very simple.  One thing you may consider,
>once Xft support is done, is combine all the GB2312, GBK, GB18030
>encodings into one: PRC GB.  I don't see why they need to be
>separated as it is now.
>
The area which will have issue is in the x window font handling area. We
definitely need to spend some time there to make it work.
Does GTK+ calling Xft ? Start from which version ?

>
>
>Regards,
>
>Yao Zhang
>


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