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
tc31@cornell.edu
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