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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Enquiry on the Support Status of the ISO 10646 standard and HKSCS on KOffice
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-02-21 16:14:31
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We have unicode support, so this should work, I suggest you try koffice to 
see for your self if it works like you want.

Sorry, I don't know these encodings so I can't judge this.


On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:16:07PM +0800, Andrew TC Fung wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> 
> I refer to my mail enquiry that I forwarded below.  Grateful if you can let
> us know about the support status of KOffice on ISO 10646 and HKSCS.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Andrew Fung, ITSD of HKSARG
> 
> ____ Forwarded by Andrew TC FUNG/ITSD/HKSARG on 2002/02/20 07:12 PM _____
> 
> 
> From: Andrew TC FUNG on 2002/02/05 07:45 PM
> To: koffice@mail.kde.org
> cc: Gary KW LAI/ITSD/HKSARG@ITSD, CS SO/ITSD/HKSARG@ITSD
> Subject: Enquiry on the Support Status of the ISO 10646 standard and HKSCS
> on KOffice
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> 
> I am Andrew Fung of the Information Technology Services Department of the
> Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).  My team
> is responsible for the development and support of Chinese computing in the
> Government.  I am writing to ask about the support status of the ISO 10646
> standard and the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) on KOffice.
> 
> As stated in her Digital 21 IT Strategy, the HKSAR Government is promoting
> the adoption of the ISO 10646 standard and the HKSCS as the common
> interface for Chinese processing.  The ISO 10646 standard provides a
> unified standard for the coding of characters in all major languages in the
> world including traditional and simplified Chinese characters.  The HKSCS
> contains Chinese characters that are specific to the Hong Kong environment
> but are either not included in the Big-5 coding standard or the ISO 10646
> standard.  There are two encoding schemes of HKSCS.  One encoding scheme is
> for the Big-5 coding standard and the other is for the ISO 10646 standard.
> Detail information of the HKSCS is available at our web site:
> http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/introduction.html.
> 
> According to our understanding, KOffice supports the Big-5 coding standard
> and the GB coding standard.  We would like to know that whether it also
> supports the following:
> 
> (i)   the ISO 10646 standard;
> (ii)  the HKSCS encoded for the ISO 10646 standard; and
> (iii) the HKSCS encoded for the Big-5 coding standard.
> 
> If KOffice does not support the above standards, is there any plan to
> implement such support and what is the schedule of the plan?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Yours,
> Andrew Fung
> APII, ITSD
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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