Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:50:04 GMT From: Wei-Hao Syu <whsyu@ntu.edu.tw> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv Message-ID: <200712170350.lBH3o4iN074215@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/118481; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wei-Hao Syu <whsyu@ntu.edu.tw> To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:23:36 +0800 because of katakana and hiragana. The major difference between big5-2003/big5-1984 is big5-2003 has katakana and hiragana mapping ( from big5-eten). big5-2003 is part of official standard in Taiwan and most Taiwanese have the requirement (katakana, hiragana support) when using ftp/bbs with big5 encoding, that is why we need this one. On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:25:35 +0900 , Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org > wrote: > Could you explain why you need this hack and what is more important > how it will interact with other variants of BIG5 family, please? I > can see that this silent switchover may lead to incompatibility > between hacked and clean systems which is not good thing IMHO. In > any case I strictly recommend you to put pressure on GNU libiconv > developers to resolve issue at the right place. >
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