From: Raymond Mercier (RaymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 04:32:35 CDT
[Earlier posting lost, it seems.]
James Kass writes:
> The lack of support for supplementary characters expressed in UTF-8
> in the Internet Explorer is a bug. As Philippe Verdy mentions, the
> Mozilla browser does not have this same bug. Also it should be
> noted that the Opera browser handles non-BMP UTF-8 just fine.
As I said in my starting message Mozilla copes with everything, both UTF8
and NCR, over the whole CJK range.
However Opera (in my experience) cannot do Ext B in either UTF8 or NCR.
IE6 cannot cope with Ext A in UTF8, but will do so in NCR.
I attach two short files (produced by Hanfind) that include both extensions,
one in UTF8 and the other NCR (except that characters given within the text
are all NCR).
> While working with NCRs may be an ugly nightmare, there are some
shortcuts.
BabelPad is great, but it chokes in converting all the UTF8 in unihan.txt to
NCR at one
go. I wrote a dedicated program to do that.
> I *think* that Windows 2000 uses Unicode always internally and uses an
> internal conversion chart if material is non-Unicode like GB-18030.
>
That at least is declared http://www.i18nguy.com/surrogates.html.
Raymond Mercier
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