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Re: Chinese characters support
From: |
Lee Sau Dan |
Subject: |
Re: Chinese characters support |
Date: |
15 May 2003 10:07:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
Charles> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>> And for XML in Chinese, utf-8 wastes lots of space. To be
>> practical, we often use big5 for XML files with Chinese.
Charles> That's fine, if all you are doing is Chinese. The
Charles> documents in my project include terms from over 15
Charles> languages, including Tibetan, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Pali,
Charles> and several European languages. Unicode has codepoints
Charles> for these characters, while Big5 (and other Chinese
Charles> codesets) do not.
The emacs-mule encoding also has code points for these characters.
Moreover, it can distinguish big5 characters from JIS characters (see
the "Difference among chinese characters in GB, JIS, KSC, BIG5:"
section in the HELLO file.), while Unicode (and hence utf-7, utf-8,
utf-16, ucs2, ucs4) cannot.
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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