[Groff] Re: preconv supported encodings

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Well, Big5 should probably be used too, together with EUC-KR.
> 
> Big5 is not a good candidate to support here, because there are many
> variants of Big5 and none of it is formally standardized.  [...]

I know that too well, but the ETen variant is still the most favourite
encoding in Taiwan (besides Unicode).

> If you want to support an encoding for traditional Chinese, it
> should be CP950;

Hmm...

> EUC-KR is not needed: Korean users migrated to Unicode quite early,
> several years ago, because EUC-KR is missing about half of the
> characters needed for proper support of Korean.

Well, supporting EUC-KR doesn't harm, and it completes the round of
`old' CJK encodings.


    Werner