From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 18:14:02 EST
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> From: "Frank Yung-Fong Tang" <ytang0648@aol.com>
>
> > so.. in summary, how is your concusion about the quality of "GB18030"
> > support on IE6/Win2K ? If you run the same test on Mozilla / Netscape
> > 7.0, what is your conclusion about that quality of support?
>
> In Summary?
>
> Well, in summry, I fail to see how testing for NCRs has anything to do
> with
> suport of *any* encoding in a browser. It seems like an inadequate
> test of
> functionality of "gb18030" support.
>
> If you want to test gb18030 support, then please encode a web page in
> gb18030 and test *that* in the browser of your choice.
Have you ever look at that page before you said this? or the html source
of that page?
Those page display 5 information [for BMP characters, less information
is there] for each characters
1. the GB18030 encoded value in hex. That hex value of the first two
bytes are display on the top of the page for the plane 2 characters. The
hex value of the thrid byte is display on the left of each row. The 4th
byte is display on top of each column
2. The 4 bytes of the characters encoded in GB18030
3. The same characters encoded by using hex escape in html as &#xhhhhhhh;
4. a <IMG> point to the image on www.unicode.org
5 The equvilant Unicode hex value is display as U+xxxx in the bottom
Ideally, if the browser do thing right and the font is install, the one
who want to test can compare 2, 3, and 4 to see what happen.
Therefore, it could be used to test BOTH the NCR and GB18030.
If 2 display different from 4 (assume the server is up and running and
you do see the glyph in gif), then it mean the conveter have problem.
If 3 display different from 4 (assume the gif can be view), then it mean
your html parser have problem
If 2 and 3 display different from 4, then it could be both have problem
, the rendering engine itself have problem, or all of them have problem.
Of course, you don't really need to <img> part, you can compare with the
Unicode 4.0 standard by yourself. But my tool is written 1 year before I
got my hardcopy of Unicode 4.0 standard so that image help us to QA.
If you SAVE the page locally then look at the result, notice the "save"
operation could already damange you page.
And YES, I DO encode that page in GB18030 and use byte to encode. I did
have ADDITIONAL information encoded in NCR and <img> there to help to
verfication. You may missed the real GB18030 encoded characters there if
you do not pay close attention.
>
> Now if you want to discuss NCR support then that may also be interesting.
> But it would be nice to have tests that actually cover what they claim to
> cover....
I do have actual claim about what it cover. And more than that. The
problem is you look at the addition part which is beyond what I claim in
the last email.
>
> MichKa [MS]
> NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development
> Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
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