> On 26 May 2025, at 18:07, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> On 2025-05-24 Sa 8:58 PM, DEVOPS_WwIT wrote:
>> The GB18030 encoding standard is a mandatory Chinese character encoding standard required by regulations. Software
soldand used in China must support GB18030, with its latest version being the 2023 edition. The primary advantage of
GB18030is that most Chinese characters require only 2 bytes for storage, whereas UTF-8 necessitates 3 bytes for the
samecharacters. This makes GB18030 significantly more storage-efficient compared to UTF-8 in terms of space
utilization.
>
> Given this, removing it seems like a non-starter.
Agreed, it seems very unappealing to remove something so important to such a
large userbase.
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Daniel Gustafsson
