From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24364 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Chinese Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:19:03 +0100 Message-ID: <43A09A57.6070301@wxs.nl> References: <20051209152442.e84454c3@mx1.kerio.com> <439D9D0F.6080406@wxs.nl> <439DE85D.6090302@net-b.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134601428 1396 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 23:03:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 15 00:03:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emfd2-0004zo-MZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D406B127E7; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03252-08-2; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE170127DF; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179E8127DC for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03128-05 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:01:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D34127FA for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:19:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7743 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:25:48 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439DE85D.6090302@net-b.de> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24364 Archived-At: Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> chinese is not yet defined in utf so if you want that, we need to do it > > We probably should. > >> question: do the unicode tables cover gbk and big 5 well? > > There exists a one-to-one correspondence between GBK and Unicode [1], > for Big5 there are 7 characters which cannot be mapped one-to-one (see > comment at top of [2]); thee of which appear twice in Big5 but only > once in Unicode, two are not in unicode and there are two mapping > problems. > In practive one can thus say: Both GBK and Big5 can be mapped to Unicode. so, if we can make things utf deep down and remap gbk and big 5 to utf, we can do with one set of fonts, metrics etc i got chinese working in utf now, but need an enco table for teh special cases (see enco-chi); when someone made me that table, i can upload an alpha Hans