Talk:Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set

Requested move 28 February 2015

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 09:02, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

HKSCS → Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set – The acronym isn't that widely or commonly known. George Ho (talk) 08:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Support. Acronyms and abbreviations should be expanded&mdash;it makes more sense to visit a page for an abbreviation and get redirected to one with a title that spells out the whole term, than to visit the page for the term and get redirected to an abbreviation. Honestly, I would have just been bold and made the move directly. // coldacid (talk&#124;contrib) 01:50, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. Full name should be used unless an acronym is widely known, which is not the case here. -Zanhe (talk) 03:01, 8 March 2015 (UTC)


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Recent change in Firefox
The article talks about the support status in Mozilla 1.5 / Gecko 1.8.1. That situation is no longer the present situation. I rewrote the relevant code and the new code shipped in Firefox 43. (Shipping also documented on the support site.) Firefox/Gecko now implements what the Encoding Standard requires for Big5.

The key changes are


 * Big5-HKSCS is now just a label (aka. alias) for Big5 and the two are no longer treated as distinct encodings.
 * Support for Big5-UAO was removed and now the Big5 decoder supports HKSCS.
 * Instead of some input getting mapped to the BMP Private Use Area, mappings to the Supplementary Ideographic Plane are used as appropriate.
 * To avoid sending extension byte sequences to servers that might not understand them, the Big5 encoder never emits HKSCS byte sequences. E.g. in form submission, those characters are submitted as numeric character references when the encoding of the submission is Big5.

It would be appropriate to edit the article to reflect this change. (I'm not editing the article myself to avoid running afoul the COI editing rules, since I wrote the code.)

Hsivonen (talk) 07:06, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Edited it with a reference to the WHATWG encoding standard. Feel free to add more detail including which versions of Firefox and Chrome follow the standard. - Yuhong (talk) 19:58, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you. In order to steer clear of COI editing, I'm refraining from editing the page myself, but I suggest. Taking merging the paragraphs:
 * Thank you. In order to steer clear of COI editing, I'm refraining from editing the page myself, but I suggest. Taking merging the paragraphs:

"Mozilla 1.5 and above supports HKSCS, with HKSCS-2004 support added into Gecko 1.8.1 code base. Unlike the above-mentioned patch, Mozilla uses its own code page table. However, the fix for bug 343129 does not support characters mapped to code points above Basic Multilingual Plane. "

and

"The WHATWG Encoding Standard includes HKSCS in decoding but not in encoding, and always does even with the plain Big5 label. Newer browsers follow the standard, including Firefox."

and merging them along the lines of

"The WHATWG Encoding Standard includes HKSCS in decoding but not in encoding, and always does even with the plain Big5 label. Newer browsers follow the standard, including Firefox since version 43. (From Mozilla 1.5 to Firefox 42, HKSCS was supported with non-Basic Multilingual Plane characters mapped to the Private Use Area.)"

Hsivonen (talk) 15:50, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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glibc/Linux support
"HKSCS support was added to glibc in 2000, but it has not been updated since then." I'm a little curious, is it needed/neglected? I could have thought C libraries, only needed to support UTF-8 (or UTF-16) and the rest of Unicode support elsewhere? comp.arch (talk) 15:02, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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