> Hmm ... interesting idea, basically invent our own modified version
> of GB18030 (or SJIS?) for backend-internal storage. But I'm not
> sure how to make it work without enlarging the string, which'd defeat
> the OP's argument. It looks to me like the second-byte code space is
> already pretty full in both encodings.
But as he already admitted, actually GB18030 is 4 byte encoding, rather
than 2 bytes. So maybe we could find a way to map original GB18030 to
ASCII-safe GB18030 using 4 bytes.
As for SJIS, no big demand for the encoding in Japan these days. So I
think we can leave it as it is.
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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