Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-04-03 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
We add GB18030 support into Mozilla and also add 32 bit cmap support on windows into Mozilla about a year ago. The Linux and Mac 32-bit cmap support is a little bit behind I think we first have GB18030 encoding support in Netscape in Netscape 6.2 You should be able to see whatever the characters

Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread Stefan Persson
John H. Jenkins wrote: Well, not from Apple's, anyway. Several GB18030 fonts come with Mac OS X 10.2, but we don't have a license to make them freely downloadable. I see. BTW, what exactly does the law require? I have understood that software has to support displaying and inputting characte

Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Stefan Persson wrote: I assume that you mean GB18030, right? Due to a change in Chinese laws, Apple and Microsoft had to make fonts supporting all those characters available. You may download those fonts from the companies' respective home pages.

Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread Stefan Persson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm new to 18030 and was hoping that someone could verify this. We're implementing a browser-delivered database application and would like to support 18030. One fairly straightforward way of implementing this seems to be to accept 18030 at the browser and th

Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread Markus Scherer
GB 18030 is defined with a 1:1 mapping table to Unicode. It has large code spaces for user-defined characters, but the standard repertoire is the same as Unicode's. In practice, all modern browsers work internally with Unicode no matter what page charset is received. They all convert from the pa

newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread Erik.Ostermueller
Hello, all. I'm new to 18030 and was hoping that someone could verify this. We're implementing a browser-delivered database application and would like to support 18030. One fairly straightforward way of implementing this seems to be to accept 18030 at the browser and then transcode to Unicode whe