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Andrey Chernov wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:09:33AM -0800, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
>  
>
>>  unconverted; GB18030 will be done eventually, but GBK and UTF2 may just
>>  be removed, as they are subsets of GB18030 and UTF-8 respectively.
>>    
>>
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>They can't be removed just because they are subsets. From this position 
>ASCII can be removed too. They can be removed only if they are not 
>used (encoded documents amount should be considered).
>  
>
I was considering just making them aliases for GB18030 and UTF-8. I 
don't see how this could break anything, but maybe I'll do a little 
research into how other systems handle GBK/GB18030; UTF2 doesn't really 
matter, since it's slated for removal in 6.0.


Tim