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Re: GB18030

To: linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GB18030
From: Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:10:17 +0100
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Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> What was wrong
> with UTF-8 one wonders (rhetorical question, don´t really want to
> know the answer because it is probably very complicated).

UTF-8 is upward compatible with ASCII, but the Chinese government wanted
something that is upward compatible with GB2312, and thus they created GB18030.

Bruno

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