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29.1; [BUG] GB18030 Incorrect Encoding

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: "Ruijie Yu" <yuruijie <at> sics.ac.cn>
Cc: 66760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66760: 29.1; [BUG] GB18030 Incorrect Encoding
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:20:59 +0200

On Okt 26 2023, Ruijie Yu wrote:

> I have noticed that in GB18030 encoding, certain ranges of characters
> have incorrect encodings.
>
> One example is U+217A (SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ELEVEN).  The expected
> encoding is 81 36 C5 30 (as can be seen from the GB18030 standard [1]
> and verified from other programs such as iconv and MySQL), whereas the
> observed encoding within Emacs is 81 36 C4 39, with a 1-codepoint
> offset.

This is a bug in the generation of GB180304.map.  The gb180303.awk
script assumes that the 4-byte encodings of GB18030 are filling the
holes in sequence of characters with a 2-byte encoding by Unicode
codepoint order, but there are some places where codepoints from the PUA
area are inserted into the sequence.  For example, U+1E3E maps to 81 35
F4 36, the next codepoint not mapped to a 2-byte code is U+1E40, but
that maps to 81 35 F4 38, whereas 81 35 F4 37 is the encoding of U+E7C7.
So the output gets out of sync.

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