Re: DBCS and Unicode 3.1

From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 20:53:02 EST

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    On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markus Scherer wrote:
    > Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
    > > There are standards like the Chinese GB18030 which supports characters
    > > of 1, 2, or 4 bytes -- definitely MBCS again.
    >
    > Other examples: There are EUC-JP (1/2/3 bytes per character) and
    > EUC-CN (1/2/4 BpC) which are quite "old" (much older than GB 18030).

      Markus's fingers made a mistake here :-). It's EUC-TW (not EUC-CN)
    that encodes CNS 11643 plane 2(1) thru plane 7 using SS2.

      Jungshik

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