[Typo3-dev] help needed: charset tables (Asian languages)

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Maybe it would be fair to require mbstring et all for those charsets?
After all people using these sets are more likely to have conversion
support compiled in than western europe.

At least it would be a fair tradeoff with a very limited support.

- kasper

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:44, Martin T. Kutschker wrote:
> Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> > I martin.
> > 
> > 
> > In fact, the way I got hold of the gb2312 charset table was ... but
> > requesting a URL at microsoft 256 times with a PHP script and parse the
> > content... :-)
> 
> I see *sigh*
> 
> Anyway, I got hold onto some tables. I'll use the ones Microsoft 
> provides if available otherise what I've found elsewhere.
> 
> The trouble is that a) the Asian standards became all updated at least 
> twice (without a renaming) and b) there are no official mappings to 
> Unicode. The maping is done independently by the vendors (so diffeent 
> vendors => different mappings).
> 
> And what's more it seems that you cannot round-trip these charsets to 
> Unicode (there is a Microsoft issue article where they mention about 30 
> characters which do not round-trip per design).
> 
> I guess it will work out all right for most cases, but some "edge cases".
> 
> BTW, iso-2002-jp (JIS) is no fun. Conversion from JIS to Unicode is more 
> or leass easy, but Unicode to JIS requires some work. I'll postpone it 
> for now *). Anyone speaking Japanese who objects?
> 
> Masi
> 
> *) That is for "native" Typo3 support; mbstring, recode and iconv handle 
> these charsets.
> 
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Best regards

- kasper

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