Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 13:14:05 +0800 From: Rong-En Fan <rafan@infor.org> To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] converters/libiconv: includes a patch for Big5 Message-ID: <20050507051405.GA59047@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <427BB759.6020001@FreeBSD.org> References: <200505061630.j46GU3Al031010@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <427BB759.6020001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:28:41AM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > Rong-En Fan wrote: > > >The Japanese characters mapping in the original libiconv big5 table > >is *wrong*. this extra patch will fix this and introduce an new > >knob WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES_BIG5 along with change old one to > >WITH_EXTRA_PATCHES_JP. (If you think we can put them together, > >that's ok.). With the new mapping, lots of chinese people using > >UTF-8 will be appreciated. > > > > > Thanks for the patch but could you provide us with few samples of what > it actually fixes. > I also see you added big code block which AFAIK is not defined by BIG5 > to UNICODE tables published on unicode.org. Could you also comment this, > please? Any official sources are very welcome. This new Big5 table is called Big5-2003 and appears in the appendix of the new national standard of CNS11643. A web is available http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/web/big5/ . Here I quote from a mail from Ping Yeh (SLAT) when he replied libiconv's author about this table: <quote> This Big5-2003 specification is a result of discussions among CMEX, Academia Sinica, IBM, Microsoft, Taipei Computer Association and Software Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT), and the free software community was influential in the details, especially in avoiding conflicts with Big5-HKSCS. It was SLAT who went through the regulations to make this happen. It consists of a code mapping table between Big5-2003, CNS-11643 and Unicode and is now an appendix in the national standard CNS-11643. </quote> The original big5 table in libiconv does not contain lots of characters we common used in Taiwan, those characters are in Big5-eten which is the most widely used Big5 table here. rafan.
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