GB18030

2005年底发布的信息技术新国标中有GB18030-2005，这是取代GB18030-2000的新的强制性标准。

小学：

秋天来了，
天气凉了，
一行大雁往南飞，
一会排成人字，
一会排成一字。

但是，故事没有完，大学毕业之后，我们才发现了自己其实还是文盲……不信，你看看GB18030?

时常觉得自己很没文化，这不，又落伍了……

尐
jié
　ㄐㄧㄝˊ
少。
小。
郑码：KOS，U：5C10，GBK：8CA8
笔画数：4，部首：小，笔顺编号：2344

尐
jí
　ㄐㄧˊ
有花纹的雌蝉。
郑码：KOS，U：5C10，GBK：8CA8
笔画数：4，部首：小，笔顺编号：2344

Rumor said that the GB18030 standardization working committee has been disbanded some weeks ago, and GB (Q) 18030-2000 standard is pending to be abandoned soon. In addition, the new identity card system developed by the Ministry of Public Security has been stuck because of Chinese coding problem.

From the ChangeLog in XFree86 repository, ticket 511 indicates:

511. Encoding file updates (After X-TT Project):

• Removed jisx0208.1983-0.enc and added ‘ALIAS jisx0208.1983-0’ to
  jisx0208.1990-0.enc.
• Added Windows ucs2 cmap(3,1) to jisx0208.1990-0.enc and
  jisx0201.1976-0.enc.
• Added files for GB18030-0 and GB18030-1 (James Su).

Many efforts is ongoing to support the mandatory standard. I am happy to see these progresses, but unfortunatelly it seems that no font vendors are willing to release at least one of their fonts, and it seems unhopeful to see one in the future.