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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:17:56 JST Rich Felker

   Way to go ICU project! Breaking a permalink that's all over RFCs, IANA documents, etc.

   🤡 🤡 🤡

   http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/data/trunk/charset/data/xml/gb-18030-2000.xml

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:19:17 JST Rich Felker

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     And like, if this document was normative, the link they provided should not have been to the current version in a git repo. It should have been to a standalone published file. 🤡

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:26:34 JST Rich Felker

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     Sorry, I mean git^H^H^H svn repo. 🤮

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:27:43 JST Rich Felker

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     And here's where it moved to: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu-data/tags/tzu-1-4-0/charset/data/xml/gb-18030-2000.xml

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:57:41 JST Rich Felker

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     And with that I have resolved the remaining questions about musl iconv's GB18030.

     What we implement is the original 2000 specification, and, with the fixes applied in https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=67219f0130ec7c876ac0b299046460fad31caabf, our implementation fully matches GB 18030-2000.

     glibc presently implements the 2022 version, which has 19 changes, one of them from the 2005 update and the other 18 from 2022. That matches the discrepancy I hit trying to validate musl's against glibc. These changes are entirely swaps of proper Unicode characters for legacy mappings to PUA slots. 🤮

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:59:07 JST Rich Felker

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     • Dan York

     @danyork That link is supposed to go to an xml file. Instead it shows a generic page pretending to be what you asked for in place of the 404 error it should be showing if the file is gone.

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     Dan York (danyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 04:59:08 JST Dan York

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     @dalias What did they do? I am not clear on where the link is.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 05:21:49 JST Rich Felker

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     • Dan York

     @danyork Yeah. This is the actual file that's supposed to be there: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu-data/tags/tzu-1-4-0/charset/data/xml/gb-18030-2000.xml

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     Dan York (danyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 05:21:50 JST Dan York

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     @dalias Ohhhhhhhh. 🤦♂️

     That is not good!