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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: gb2312 encoding removed?
From:       Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-02-27 12:24:37
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On Wednesday 20 February 2002 23:29, David Faure wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> sorry to spam you again...
> This is quite precise report on a problem with the gb2312 encoding
> (especially in web pages).

I tried the page mentioned below, and display seems perfect for me. 
QTextCodec::codecForName( "gb2312" ) does IMO also return the correct codec.

Lars

>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Re: [kde] browser problem
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:56:15 +0100
> From: Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: David Faure <david@mandrakesoft.com>
>
> Kaixo!
>
> It seems there is a problem with simplified Chinese ("gb2312" encoding
> declared in the headers) in konqueror.
>
>
> You can reproduce it for example with the pages
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/zh/ or http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/chn/index.html
>
> note that I've defined in settings->browser->fonts a font for each font
> type (serif, sans, etc) for the gb2312 encoding.
>
>
> Could it be that KDE has dropped "gb2312" and now uses "GKB" instead ?
> (they are upward compatible I think).
>
> There are however two big problems with that approach:
>
> - most web pages use "gb2312" (and not "gkb") as their charset declaration
> - most of the (freely) available fonts have the characters needed for
>   the gb2312 encoding but miss the extra characters needed for gbk.
>
> it is therefore important that KDE continues to support gb2312.
> I even think it would be a good idea to backfall to gb2312 fonts under X
> if no gbk font is available (it won't be perfect, but in most than 90%
> of the cases the result will be unnoticeable; anyways even in the worst
> case it would be better to have some undisplayed characters than having
> all characters undisplayed).
>
> I did the tests with kdebase-2.2.2-52mdk

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