Subject: Re: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8

From: Werner LEMBERG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:26:54 +0200 (CEST)

> GBK is a backwards compatible extension of GB with more characters.
> I'm not sure that Big5 has an equivalent.

Such an extension exists; it is called Big5-plus.  However, AFAIK,
nobody has ever used it, and today it is obsolete since Unicode is
much better.

    Werner