Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:19:34 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale big5.c euc.c mskanji.c utf8.c Message-ID: <3FA582F6.1020605@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20031102134326.GA7255@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200311021009.hA2A9XTU063850@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031102134326.GA7255@nagual.pp.ru>
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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. >> >> > >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
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