Subject: GB standard for traditional characters?

From: "Stephen G. Simpson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 91 13:58:38 -0500

Ed Lai writes:

> I heard that there is a GB standard defined in Mainland
> China that is very close to the one we normally see, but
> have some extra code defined to alleviate the n-to-1 mapping
> problem between traditional and simplified character. If
> possible we should try to be able to accomdate this broader
> GB.

This sounds great.  Does anybody know anything more about
this, or where to get detailed information?  The normal GB is
fine except for one big problem, lack of support for
traditional characters.  I think any Chinese character coding
standard that can't handle traditional characters is doomed
for international use, because the majority of Chinese outside
the PRC prefer traditional characters.