Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:40:03 GMT From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv Message-ID: <200712170540.lBH5e3x7055769@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/118481; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Wei-Hao Syu <whsyu@ntu.edu.tw> Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:37:52 +0900 I understand the difference. My question was more about why you can not use BIG5-2003 when it appropriate? The point is BIG5 in its original form is not a subset of BIG5-2003. There are code points defined differently. So what you asking for is technically illegal. However if this is an *official* way you do it in Taiwan (which will be really weird case) please convince GNU libiconv developers to switchover. Wei-Hao Syu wrote: > 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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