Hello Jen-Shin, I have talked with Yui Naruse here at RubyKaigi 2009. I will ask my student, Tatsuya Mizuno, to work on adding this encoding to Ruby. I hope it will be finished within about one week. Regards, Martin. On 2009/07/17 21:15, Lin Jen-Shin wrote: > Issue #1784 has been updated by Lin Jen-Shin. > > > Very glad to hear so! > > In short, what *I* would want would be UAO _or_ > Big5 from Mozilla Taiwan (I would call it Moz18 later), > This is because Moz18's b2u table (Big5 to Unicode) > is the same with UAO 2.41's, so either one would be > fine in most cases. And perhaps I won't need u2b > transcoding :p > > Here's the long reason and some background: > I know that there used to be many people installed > UAO to use Big5 Japanese in Taiwan. They were > taught that this software would complement (Êä´°) > Unicode, and many people thought that UAO was > Unicode. This helped people using unified Big5 Japanese, > but slowed down the progress of going to Unicode. > > As far as I know, UAO isn't any standard, > so there're few softwares support it, > except softwares that made for Taiwanese. > Most of them are telnet clients for BBS. > > I am not sure but somehow Big5-HKSCS could > transcode many characters from UAO, and there > are many softwares support Big5-HKSCS, e.g. libiconv. > So using Big5-HKSCS could be a workaround if > UAO wasn't supported. > > As for Moz18, the Big5 from Mozilla Taiwan, > I have to admit that I've never heard it before > reading this page: http://moztw.org/docs/big5/ > It said what they have in mind were the most > compatible ability, and easing the problem of UAO. > (i.e. too few softwares support it) > Its b2u is the same with UAO 2.41 (but not 2.50), and > u2b is based on CP950, plus the extension part of > Big5-2003 and UAO. > > Furthermore, they worked with the authors of UAO, > and UAO encouraged people to use Firefox to _read_ > missing characters in Big5. So I would suppose this > would be the last yet another Big5 variant... > > As a result, support for either Moz18 or UAO > would be fine enough for *me*. > > Here's the tables for reference: > Moz18 > In previous post. > > UAO 2.41 (b2u is the same with Moz18's according to the page) > http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao241-b2u.txt > http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao241-u2b.txt > > UAO 2.50 (I am not sure if this differs many from 2.41) > http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao250-b2u.txt > http://moztw.org/docs/big5/table/uao250-u2b.txt > > Sincerely, > > ---------------------------------------- > http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1784 > > ---------------------------------------- > http://redmine.ruby-lang.org > > -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst / it.aoyama.ac.jp