On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tex Texin wrote: > I am glad Sybase gave different character sets different names.
There's a "Big5-HKSCS" tag[1]--is anyone using that? [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets (see MIBenum 2101; I don't understand why it's in the "vendor" range, though) > For that matter I wonder what a user in HK does when their Windows > operating system is upgraded and their files that had HKSCS characters > in the private use area now expect them in other locations. Or distinguishing between data in HKSCS, GCCS, pre-GCCS vendor extensions, and privately-created extensions, all of which can occupy the same encoding space. Too bad that GCCS and HKSCS first existed as government-anointed waizi/gaiji extensions, and were (and still are) implemented that way, rather than as part of a proper and separate character set. (I wish GCCS and HKSCS had proper numbers and dates to refer to them by--the names are really too similar, and easily garbled and confused. Recently I gave feedback on an article where HKSCS was used and discussed, but under the GCCS name and with arguments that were only true for GCCS.) Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
