ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv

[Wei-Hao Syu]

The following reply was made to PR ports/118481; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wei-Hao Syu <whsyu at ntu.edu.tw>
To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/118481: big5-2003 in converters/libiconv
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:23:36 +0800

 because of katakana and hiragana.
 
 The major difference between big5-2003/big5-1984 is big5-2003 has  
 katakana and hiragana mapping ( from big5-eten). big5-2003 is part of  
 official standard in Taiwan and most Taiwanese have the requirement  
 (katakana, hiragana support) when using ftp/bbs with big5 encoding,  
 that is why we need this one.
 
 On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:25:35 +0900 , Alexander Nedotsukov <bland at FreeBSD.org 
  > wrote:
 > Could you explain why you need this hack and what is more important  
 > how it will interact with other variants of BIG5 family, please? I  
 > can see that this silent switchover may lead to incompatibility  
 > between hacked and clean systems which is not good thing IMHO. In  
 > any case I strictly recommend you to put pressure on GNU libiconv  
 > developers to resolve issue at the right place.
 >