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From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv
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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.
 >>
 >
 >