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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 61b663ce08..babca37a11 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> |