Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:40:04 GMT From: Rong-En Fan <rafan@infor.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/80705: [PATCH] converters/libiconv: includes a patch for Big5 Message-ID: <200505231140.j4NBe4EZ012790@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/80705; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Rong-En Fan <rafan@infor.org> To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/80705: [PATCH] converters/libiconv: includes a patch for Big5 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:33:03 +0800 The patch is originally came from Kuang-che Wu at http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~r92030/project/big5/ I'll contact him and see how to solve this. Thanks, rafan. On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:05:15PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > The libiconv-big5-2003.patch.gz has the following problems: > - It reuses the name "BIG5" to denote something different than classical > BIG5, thus creating interoperability problems. This is a VERY BAD idea. > - The patch doesn't pass the round-trip test (many private area mappings > missing from the Big5-2003 -> Unicode direction). > - It breaks the CP950 encoding. > - It is based on a mapping table that has some problematic mappings. > (12 known problems). > > Bruno >
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