GNU bug report logs - #6866
mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 6866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
To: jasonr <at> gnu.org
Cc: 6866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5
	and not UTF-8
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nobody has ever used it, and today it is obsolete since Unicode is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
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