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Re: [PATCH] BZ #19575: Clarify status of entries in GB 18030-2005.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:20:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] BZ #19575: Clarify status of entries in GB 18030-2005.
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On 02/09/2016 05:16 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> * charmaps/GB18030: Document PUA to non-PUA equivalents.
>
> This is by no way restricted to GB18030. Several other legacy encodings
> also have compatibility mappings that where remapped to official Unicode
> points after they have become available. The compatibility mappings are
> usually included as comments in the code tables, as glibc can only use
> the roudtrip code points.
At this moment I'm only talking about GB 18030-2005.
> If you want to add some verbiage, put it in a README.
Why not in the file itself as the patch does? Keeping the notes right
beside the commented out mapping for developers to read if they have
any questions.
c.