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Bug 240423
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
should GB18030 be called Chinese Simplified?
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(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)
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RESOLVED
EXPIRED
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(Reporter: stmitrophan, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040413 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040413 Should GB18030 in the Character Encoding drop down menu be called Chinese Simplified since it can also support Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong characters and other minority languages in the PRC? According to IANA: In a nutshell, it is the Chinese version of UTF-8: whereas UTF-8 maintains compatibility with ASCII, GB18030 maintains compatibility with GB2312/GBK and provides full ISO 10646 compatibility. Part of the mapping data is from a lookup table (similar to GBK). The rest is calculated algorithmically. The current GB18030 standard specifies the addition of CJK Extension A, and ethnic minority languages Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur (Arabic) and Yi. Since GB18030 is fully ISO 10646 compatible, it readily supports CJK Extension B and other languages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to View dropdown menu 2.Select Character Encoding 3.Select More 4.Select East Asian 5.See Chinese Simplified (GB18030) Actual Results: GB18030 is called Chinese Simplified Expected Results: Maybe GB18030 should be called Chinese Unicode, like how IBM called it at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/u-china.html More info at http://www.gb18030.net/
Comment 1•20 years ago
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I thought that 'simplified' should be understood as 'non-traditional', because in the 50's the chinese have simplified the shapes of many of the more common characters in use. See <http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/chinese/>
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Comment 2•20 years ago
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Yes, the PRC have simplified the Chinese, which is supported originally by GB2312. With the advent of Unicode, the PRC also adopted it but required it to be backward compatible with GB2312, thus the new standard GB18030. Once a user use a character outside the GB2312 range in their web page, it would be covered by the GB18030, and most likely that character would be a traditional Chinese character or some dialectical character like Cantonese, which is usually some variation of a traditional character like those used in Hong Kong. Example use of GB18030 in a GB2312 web page, would be like a glossary of Cantonese terms whose links are at the bottom of http://cs-people.bu.edu/butta1/personal/hkscs In LInux, Mozilla would show the GB2312 in one thick bold style font, whereas those outside the GB2312 are in a thin character font, to easily see the mixture of the Simplified and other characters.
Comment 3•20 years ago
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although GB18030 is a Chinese version of UTF8, I'd be surprised to see it used by people other than Chinese, so "Chinese Simplified" is partly correct. Since the encoding has no alias, I'd suggest More East Asian Chinese Simplified (GB 2312) : Chinese Simplified (GB 18030) International Unicode (UTF-8) : GB 18030
Comment 4•19 years ago
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Comment 5•19 years ago
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This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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