>> 1. In this big data and mobile era, in the country with most population, 50% more disk energy consuming for Chinese
characters(UTF-8 usually 3 bytes for a Chinese character, while GB180830 only 2 bytes) is indeed a harm to "Carbon
Neutral", along with Polar ice melting.
>
> Really? I thought GB18030 uses up to 4 bytes.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030#Encoding
>
> --Parker:
> More preciously description should be GB18030 use 2 or 4 bytes for Chinese characters.
> It's a bit complicated to explain with only words but easy with help of the following graph.
>
> Most frequently used 20902 Chinese characters and 984 symbols in GBK is encoded with 2 bytes, which is a subset of
GB18030.
It does not sound fair argument unless you are going to implement only
GBK compatible part of GB18030.
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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