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Re: BIG5-HKSCS?
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: BIG5-HKSCS? |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 06:50:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> In article <address@hidden>, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> Good enough for me. Do you have an opinion on whether falling back to
>> BIG5 when BIG5-HKSCS is not available [in Gnus, for displaying
>> incoming e-mail in BIG-5HKSCS], is a reasonable behaviour?
>
>> I browsed the BIG5-HKSCS specification, and it appear to add lots of
>> characters (~1500) but it didn't seem to alter any
>
> Hmmm, if that is true, it's possbile to support it in the
> current Emacs. Emacs repsents Big5 characters in two
> charsets chinese-big5-1 and chinese-big5-2 internally. The
> former contains Big5 chars #xA140 .. #xC8FE, the latter
> #xC940..#xFEFE. That means that chinese-big5-1 still has a
> room for that additional 1500 character.
>
>> , and I can't tell
>> whether the additions are critical or just rarely used symbols. I
>> doubt rendering it as BIG5 is worse than QP, though, which is the
>> current behaviour.
>
> If BIG5-HKSCS surely just adds characters to BIG5, I think
> it is reasonable to fallback to BIG5. But, as I wrote
> above, it seems possible to support the whole BIG5-HKSCS in
> the current Emacs with a faily small effort. Could you
> please wait for a while?
I don't read Chinese, so I don't care much, but someone in
gnu.emacs.gnus might be happy. :-) I recall that the characters it
added was in the User-Defined and Vendor-Defined areas of BIG-5, so
making those mean BIG5-HKSCS could potentially conflict with other
BIG5 variants, though.
But all this is beyond my non-ASCII knowledge, so don't count on me to
test or provide any useful feedback. I'll propose to add the
BIG5-HKSCS -> BIG5 alias to Gnus, though, for old Emacs.
Thanks for your work and prompt responses!
- BIG5-HKSCS?, Simon Josefsson, 2003/11/12
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Kenichi Handa, 2003/11/12
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Simon Josefsson, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Kenichi Handa, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Simon Josefsson, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Kenichi Handa, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Kenichi Handa, 2003/11/13
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/14
- Re: BIG5-HKSCS?, Simon Josefsson, 2003/11/13
- eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode, Kenichi Handa, 2003/11/13
- Re: eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/14