Re: DBCS and Unicode 3.1

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:37:16 EST

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    Jungshik Shin wrote:
    > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markus Scherer wrote:
    >
    >>
    >>Other examples: There are EUC-JP (1/2/3 bytes per character) and
    >>EUC-CN (1/2/4 BpC) which are quite "old" (much older than GB 18030).
    >
    > Markus's fingers made a mistake here :-). It's EUC-TW (not EUC-CN)
    > that encodes CNS 11643 plane 2(1) thru plane 7 using SS2.
    >
    > Jungshik

    Oops, absolutely, silly me. It is indeed EUC-TW with 1/2/4 BpC while EUC-CN is a simple 1/2-BpC
    MBCS. By the way, the encoding scheme for EUC-TW has space for 16 CNS planes, and some vendor
    implementations use higher planes than 7.

    markus

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