Re[2]: Unicode and C++

[hashao <hashao china com>]

Hello Derek,

Friday, July 07, 2000, 6:40:35 AM, you wrote:

->> So is there something obvious that I am missing about 32bit unicode? 

DS> http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gtk-i18n-list/2000-July/000316.html

DS>         Also, appearantly there was some Chinese character encoding
DS> released in May that has 32-bit characters.  I don't know what it's called
DS> or if it has anything to do with Unicode or not.

It's called GB18030-2000. It's a China national standard. It has no relation
with unicode (from what I saw on the net). It's a replacement for the
old Chinese GB charset GB2312 and its implements. Any Chinese system
sold in China after December 2000 must support this standard.

The GB18030-2000 has one, two, four byte characters. Included more than
27,000 chars and extendable to 1500,000 chars. It is weird a
non-unicode standard released at this moment of time. Maybe there are
immediate need for more characters on the current non-unicode systems
around the country.

http://www.chinaweb.com/english/cw_html/itnews/technology_products/BJ3948.html

BTW: The new standard is published at March.
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