Mark, I think only "converter" is not sufficient. How about the following support : - IME (to input CJK Ext.A characters through GB18030/Unicode code) - X-Windows fonts support. - iconv support - mbtowc(), mbstowcs(), mblen()... - and so on...
You need be able to do like what you can do on Solaris and HP "setenv LANG zh_CN.GB18030" to enable those support. The conveter mentioned on the Web site you fond to me is just a utility. Jane --- Markus Scherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jane Liu wrote: > > That may mean IBM AIX 5 support converison between GB18030 and > > Unicode, but I don't see this is a system level of support > because > > there is no locale names for GB18030 in the doc of AIX 5 : > > The GB 18030 standard requires software to be able to _read and > write_ text in the GB18030 charset, > and to process all of the characters that it has - or at least the > ones that the Chinese > certification test includes. > > The standard does _not_ require to _process_ internally in GB18030. > It is sufficient to have a > converter and to process in Unicode, which does contain all of the > characters. This is because > GB18030 is defined in terms of GB 13000=ISO 10646=Unicode (these > are equal in terms of their coded > character sets but Unicode adds what to do with characters). > > So if you are able to convert between GB18030 and Unicode, and you > process in Unicode (UTF-8/16/32 > as you wish), then that's all you need. In other words, you can > safely write your software based > internally always on Unicode support, as is recommended for all > languages anyway. > > Best regards, > markus > > -- > Opinions expressed here may not reflect my company's positions > unless otherwise noted. > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
