From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:45:35 EST
so.. in summary, how is your concusion about the quality of "GB18030"
support on IE6/Win2K ? If you run the same test on Mozilla / Netscape
7.0, what is your conclusion about that quality of support?
Andrew C. West wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:32:16 +0000, jameskass@att.net wrote:
> >
> > Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote,
> > > If you visit
> > >
> http://people.netscape.com/ftang/testscript/gb18030/gb18030.cgi?page=596
> > > and your machine have surrogate support install correctly and
> surrogate
> > > font install correctly then you should see surrogate characters
> show up
> > > match the gif.
> >
> > It isn't working, but I have surrogate support and a font correctly
> > installed.
> >
>
> Using W2K and IE6, if you have a CJK-B font configured for "User Defined"
> scripts under the "Options : Fonts" settings, and manually select the
> encoding
> for the page as "User Defined", then the second CJK-B character in
> each box
> (just above the gif image) displays just fine.
>
> The top character in each box appears to be encoded as GB-18030 (e.g.
> GB-18030
> 0x95328236 = U+20000), and the second character is encoded as hex NCR
> values
> (e.g. 𠀀 for U+20000).
>
> If GB-18030 is selected as the encoding for the page (as explicitly
> given in the
> file), then IE won't display the CJK-B characters correctly (even if you
> configure a CJK-B font as your default font for displaying Chinese),
> but you can
> copy and paste them to a Unicode editor, where both the GB-18030 and
> NCR encoded
> forms of CJK-B characters will display correctly with an appropriate
> CJK-B font.
>
> If User Defined is selected as the encoding for the page (either
> manually or by
> changing the meta tag in the file to charset="x-user-defined"), then the
> GB-18030 encoded characters turn to gunk, but the NCR representations are
> displayed using whatever font you have configured for user defined
> scripts, and
> if that is a CJK-B font then hey presto !
>
> Andrew
>
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