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-rw-r--r--FAQ27
-rw-r--r--FAQ.in25
-rw-r--r--iconvdata/gb2312.c19
4 files changed, 65 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c5e36e9..8f6f65e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-12-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
+
+ * iconvdata/gb2312.c: Update mapping of GB 0x212c from latest
+ Unicode tables.
+
1999-12-26 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fxstat64.c: Rename have_no_stat64 to
diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 44558ee..0f591c4 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ please let me know.
4.6. I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
segmentation faults.
4.7. Why do so many programs using math functions fail on my AlphaStation?
+4.8. The conversion table for character set XX does not match with
+what I expect.
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@@ -1715,6 +1717,31 @@ implemented in some old PALcodes of AlphaStations. This may cause
catch these signals. Updating the firmware to a 1999 release has
fixed the problem on an AlphaStation 200 4/166.
+
+4.8. The conversion table for character set XX does not match with
+what I expect.
+
+{UD} I don't doubt for a minute that some of the conversion tables contain
+errors. We tried the best we can and relied on automatic generation of the
+data to prevent human-introduced errors but this still is no guarantee. If
+you think you found a problem please send a bug report describing it and
+give an authoritive reference. The latter is important since otherwise
+the current behaviour is as good as the proposed one.
+
+Before doing this look through the list of known problem first:
+
+- the GBK (simplified Chinese) encoding is based on Unicode tables. This
+ is good. These tables, however, differ slightly from the tables used
+ by the M$ people. The differences are these [+ Unicode, - M$]:
+
+ +0xA1AA 0x2015
+ +0xA844 0x2014
+ -0xA1AA 0x2014
+ -0xA844 0x2015
+
+ In addition the Unicode tables contain mappings for the GBK characters
+ 0xA8BC, 0xA8BF, 0xA989 to 0xA995, and 0xFE50 to 0xFEA0.
+
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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in
index 61b663c..babca37 100644
--- a/FAQ.in
+++ b/FAQ.in
@@ -1481,6 +1481,31 @@ implemented in some old PALcodes of AlphaStations. This may cause
catch these signals. Updating the firmware to a 1999 release has
fixed the problem on an AlphaStation 200 4/166.
+?? The conversion table for character set XX does not match with
+what I expect.
+
+{UD} I don't doubt for a minute that some of the conversion tables contain
+errors. We tried the best we can and relied on automatic generation of the
+data to prevent human-introduced errors but this still is no guarantee. If
+you think you found a problem please send a bug report describing it and
+give an authoritive reference. The latter is important since otherwise
+the current behaviour is as good as the proposed one.
+
+Before doing this look through the list of known problem first:
+
+- the GBK (simplified Chinese) encoding is based on Unicode tables. This
+ is good. These tables, however, differ slightly from the tables used
+ by the M$ people. The differences are these [+ Unicode, - M$]:
+
+ +0xA1AA 0x2015
+ +0xA844 0x2014
+ -0xA1AA 0x2014
+ -0xA844 0x2015
+
+ In addition the Unicode tables contain mappings for the GBK characters
+ 0xA8BC, 0xA8BF, 0xA989 to 0xA995, and 0xFE50 to 0xFEA0.
+
+
Answers were given by:
{UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>
diff --git a/iconvdata/gb2312.c b/iconvdata/gb2312.c
index 9cde1c8..d68eccb 100644
--- a/iconvdata/gb2312.c
+++ b/iconvdata/gb2312.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* GB 2312 conversion tables.
- Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1998.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ const uint16_t __gb2312_to_ucs[] =
{
[0x0000] = 0x3000, [0x0001] = 0x3001, [0x0002] = 0x3002, [0x0003] = 0x30fb,
[0x0004] = 0x02c9, [0x0005] = 0x02c7, [0x0006] = 0x00a8, [0x0007] = 0x3003,
- [0x0008] = 0x3005, [0x0009] = 0x2015, [0x000a] = 0xff5e, [0x000b] = 0x2225,
+ [0x0008] = 0x3005, [0x0009] = 0x2015, [0x000a] = 0xff5e, [0x000b] = 0x2016,
[0x000c] = 0x2026, [0x000d] = 0x2018, [0x000e] = 0x2019, [0x000f] = 0x201c,
[0x0010] = 0x201d, [0x0011] = 0x3014, [0x0012] = 0x3015, [0x0013] = 0x3008,
[0x0014] = 0x3009, [0x0015] = 0x300a, [0x0016] = 0x300b, [0x0017] = 0x300c,
@@ -2029,10 +2029,10 @@ const char __gb2312_from_ucs4_tab3[][2] =
*/
const char __gb2312_from_ucs4_tab4[][2] =
{
- [0x0000] = "\x21\x2a", [0x0003] = "\x21\x2e", [0x0004] = "\x21\x2f",
- [0x0007] = "\x21\x30", [0x0008] = "\x21\x31", [0x0011] = "\x21\x2d",
- [0x001b] = "\x21\x6b", [0x001d] = "\x21\x64", [0x001e] = "\x21\x65",
- [0x0026] = "\x21\x79",
+ [0x0000] = "\x21\x2a", [0x0001] = "\x21\x2c", [0x0003] = "\x21\x2e",
+ [0x0004] = "\x21\x2f", [0x0007] = "\x21\x30", [0x0008] = "\x21\x31",
+ [0x0011] = "\x21\x2d", [0x001b] = "\x21\x6b", [0x001d] = "\x21\x64",
+ [0x001e] = "\x21\x65", [0x0026] = "\x21\x79"
};
/* The table can be created using
@@ -2055,9 +2055,6 @@ const char __gb2312_from_ucs4_tab4[][2] =
}
printf ("\n");
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- But we have a problem here since U+2225 maps to either 0x212C or
- 0x214E. We simply choose the first solution here.
*/
const char __gb2312_from_ucs4_tab5[][2] =
{
@@ -2069,14 +2066,14 @@ const char __gb2312_from_ucs4_tab5[][2] =
[0x008e] = "\x21\x7c", [0x008f] = "\x21\x7a", [0x0090] = "\x21\x7d",
[0x0105] = "\x21\x4a", [0x010c] = "\x21\x47", [0x010e] = "\x21\x46",
[0x0117] = "\x21\x4c", [0x011a] = "\x21\x58", [0x011b] = "\x21\x5e",
- [0x011d] = "\x21\x4f", [0x0122] = "\x21\x2c", [0x0124] = "\x21\x44",
+ [0x011d] = "\x21\x4f", [0x0122] = "\x21\x4e", [0x0124] = "\x21\x44",
[0x0125] = "\x21\x45", [0x0126] = "\x21\x49", [0x0127] = "\x21\x48",
[0x0128] = "\x21\x52", [0x012b] = "\x21\x53", [0x0131] = "\x21\x60",
[0x0132] = "\x21\x5f", [0x0133] = "\x21\x43", [0x0134] = "\x21\x4b",
[0x013a] = "\x21\x57", [0x0145] = "\x21\x56", [0x0149] = "\x21\x55",
[0x015d] = "\x21\x59", [0x015e] = "\x21\x54", [0x0161] = "\x21\x5c",
[0x0162] = "\x21\x5d", [0x016b] = "\x21\x5a", [0x016c] = "\x21\x5b",
- [0x0196] = "\x21\x51", [0x01a2] = "\x21\x4d",
+ [0x0196] = "\x21\x51", [0x01a2] = "\x21\x4d"
};
/* The table can be created using