Re: Is there anybody interested in supporting GB18030 in debian?
Hello,
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, ha shao wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:17:10AM +0800, zw@debian.org wrote:
> > Anthony Fok <foka@ualberta.ca> writes:
> >
> > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, suzhe wrote:
> > > > Yes, I have already done a primitive GB18030 patch for XFree86 4.0.2
> >
> > As rumor said, GB18030 maybe is just on the road to Unicode... So somebody,
> > mark-ably the author of Unicode-Linux FAQ, doesn't have much interests to let
> > XFree86 see GB18030. And we know he's a strong vocal in the XFree86 world. ;)
> >
>
> We have to bring our users usable environment. If mark-ably doesn't like
> it, we will roll in ourselves. GB18030 is mandatory in mainland. If it
> is not supported, mainland user won't use it or think it is not complete.
>
> I think suzhe had the most part done for Xlib/Xserver. Well, the
> problem is the font. We have no availabe fonts for 18030 arounded.
The commerical GB18030 font is available now. But I use ISO10646-1 font
instead. Because the GB18030 is indeed a variant of Unicode, like UTF-8.
And I think GB18030 is very important for Chinese users because of
compatible reason.
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> hashao
>
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