Re: GB 18030 question

From: Yung-Fong Tang (ftang@netscape.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 21:01:26 EST


I looks like both Mac/Linux/Window N6.2 and current Mozilla map that to
FFE3. Looks like IE on winXP do the same way.

We, mozilla i18n group, got the GB18030 mapping table from sun. B Yuan,
any comment?

Michael Everson wrote:

> At 11:23 -0800 2002-02-01, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>
>> There is an error on page 10 of the GB 18030-2000 standard, in that
>> the character with code point A3FE maps to U+FFE3 (FULLWIDTH MACRON),
>> but is shown with a glyph that corresponds to U+FF5E (FULLWIDTH
>> TILDE). The position of the character in its code block would also
>> seem to indicate that tilde was intended.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea of which should be considered correct, the
>> glyph or the Unicode mapping value?
>
>
> Glyphs are informative in JTC1. I can only assume that the GB
> standards would follow suit.



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