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Message-ID: <20130805191246.GM221@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:12:47 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: iconv Korean and Traditional Chinese research so far
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:28:32PM +0800, Roy wrote:
> Since I'm a Traditional Chinese and Japanese legacy encoding user, I
> think I can say something here.
> [...]
> There is another Big5 extension called Big5-UAO, which is being used
> in world's largest telnet-based BBS called "ptt.cc".
>
> It has two tables, one for Big5-UAO to Unicode, another one is
> Unicode to Big5-UAO.
> http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao250-b2u.txt
> http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao250-u2b.txt
>
> Which extends DBCS lead byte to 0x81.
OK, I've been trying to do some research on this and I turned up:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-ig-zh/2012Apr/0061.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2010-11/msg00007.html
My impression (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that you can't use
Big5-UAO as the system encoding on modern versions of Windows (just
ancient ones where you install unmaintained third-party software that
hacks the system charset tables) and that it's not supported in GNU
libiconv. If this is the case, and especially if Big5-UAO's main use
is on a telnet-based BBS where everybody is using special telnet
clients that have their own Big5-UAO converters, I'd find it really
hard to justify trying to support this. But I'm open to hearing
arguments on why we should, if you believe it's important.
Rich
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