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RE: [TCLUG:1981] Chinese e-mail from Linux?



Hi

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Schlough, Mark wrote:

> >     There are many encoding systems for simplied Chinese, but gb is
> > the
> > most popular one. Almost all people use it. I would suggest you use
> > it.
> 	[Schlough, Mark]  
> 	Since you are primarily communicating with PRC folks the GB code
> is the correct font.  However, I am a bit skeptical of the notion that
> Almost all people use it.  I think that Almost all people in the the PRC
> use it.  Big5 is used more in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaisia and other
> places where tradtional characters are still used.  I think that Hong
> Kong is also still using Big5 in its publications.  This is what my
> friend (a schoolteacher in HK) told me in 1994.
> 
What I said is just simplied Chinese, not traditional Chinese. Big5 is for
traditional Chinese. In fact, I come from Taiwan and use big5 usually.
About Singapore, as I know, they use simplied Chinese, so I would guess
they use gb code instead big5.