Hi, My GB18030 patch for XFree86 actually uses iconv to convert between GB18030 and Unicode and uses UTF8_STRING (or UTF-8 encoded in COMPOUND_TEXT), as you said. It's really a tiny patch :-)
Regards James Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From: "Chulkee Sung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I seems that support of gb18030 support in glibc level is quite solid, of >>course I see many debates. I personally think that our glibc should handle >>all code points regardless that they are assigned or not as long as that are >>legal. This I believe is worth to continue to discuss. >> > >While I agree solid support of GB18030 in GLIBC or libiconv is a must, but >I fail to understand a. Why do we want GB18030 support in XLIB and b. Who >is going to use it? > >1. If iconv is used to support GB18030, then XLIB is going to depend upon >iconv; if iconv is not used, then equivalent convertion table should be >maintained in XLIB which is a duplicated effort. It is far better to let >the application depend on iconv. > >2. Should we define and use GB18030 encoded compound string? It seems >that UTF8_STRING is the prefered way to go. > >3. QT and GTK+ is not going to use GB18030 in XLIB, but they do support >GB18030 through iconv. I am not aware of any other application which will >use GB18030 support in XLIB. > >4. Serveral people here mentioned that new development will be focused >on Xft, and it seems to be Xft is going to use Unicode only. > >5. For backward compatibility, supports of legacy encodings like GB2312, etc >are kept in XLIB, but GB18030 is new, and there is no compatibility issue >here. > >So unless there is a real need for GB18030 support here, I think propably >we can leave current XLIB alone. > >> Q: How can a gb8030 characters be displayed without conversion with >>gb18030 fonts. >> > >I don't know what do you mean when you say GB18030 fonts. So far, all the >TTF fonts I have seen which cover GB18030 are really Unicode fonts. To >access them, you (or someone somewhere) need to convert to Unicode first. > >Regards, > >Yao Zhang >_______________________________________________ >I18n mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n > > _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
