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GB18030-2000 Information Technology - Chinese Ideograms Coded Character Set for Information Interchange - Extension for the basic set.

Testing environment requirement

• Physical environment:
  • No special requirement
• Hardware environment:
  • Computer used to install and run testing software
  • Printer driver that can support testing software
  • Other equipment that can support testing software
• Software environment:
  • Testing software can be installed correctly
  • Related software can be run on the testing software

• Complete repertoire support
  • If a product supports display function, its repertoire should include all characters defined in the latest version of GB18030-2000
  • Minority script should include the Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi and Uygur characters defined in ISO 10646, specifically:

    Type	Range (ISO 10646)	Total
    Mongolian	1800-18A9	155
    Tibetan	0F00-0FCF	193
    Yi	A000-A4C6	1215
    Uygur	060C-06FE	189 (Arabic excluded)

  • Encoding architecture consistency
    Products should correctly recognize and process text files in GB18030 encoding, such as supporting mixed byte (1/2/4 bytes) encoding.

• Standard applicability and deadline
  Operating systems and application development tools (such as JAVA™ technology) that are the prerequisites for other application software, should support GB18030-2000 after January 1st, 2001.

Testing procedures

• Testing for complete repertoire support
  An authorized testing organization will provide a set of data created in GB18030 encoding, including all Chinese characters, symbols and user-defined characters defined in GB18030. These data include:

  Double 1. Dat	Area 1 in double byte
  Double 2. Dat	Area 2 in double byte
  Double 3. Dat	Area 3 in double byte
  Double 4. Dat	Area 4 in double byte
  Double 5. Dat	Area 5 in double byte
  Four. Dat	Four-byte area
  User1.dat	User define area 1 in double byte
  User2.dat	User define area 2 in double byte
  User3.dat	User define area 3 in double byte

• Testing steps:
  1. Install the software to be tested on testing environment.
  2. Use the software to be tested to open above data files and print them out. Display output and print result will be considered as the original data of the testing.
  3. Testers will compare the result from display and printing with GB18030-2000 standard file and then complete the testing report according to their compared and statistical data.
• Testing for encoding architecture consistency
  1. The testers will provide a text file created randomly from single bytes, double bytes and four bytes. This text file may contain some Chinese characters, symbols and user-defined characters as defined in GB18030-2000.
  2. On the testing environment, open that text file and record display result.
  3. The testers will work out the report according to the results.