On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:59:27AM -0700, Jonathon Blake wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> 
> > but a customization especially suited for people in NK (as this
>  charset is not used anywhere else).
> 
> Unicode 0x6F6E has a modified form from KP 9566-97.
>
> KP 10721-2000 maps to a Unicode sub-range. 
> 
> KP 9566-97 maps to a Unicode sub-range.

? Character-coverage has nothing to do with charsets/the encoding used.

> KP 9566-2003 was submitted to the Unicode Consortium as a replacement
> for KP 9566-97 mapping.
> 
> BTW, CPAN has a module for the conversion of both KP 9566-97 and KP
> 10721-2000 to Unicode.

So what? Doesn't make this charset more useful for people that have
nothing to do with NK (and that is my point)
 
> >only useful to people with relationship to  NK/for NK itself.
> 
> CF University of Washington: Seattle, WA.

? You have to give more information.

> > Either there are more issues of everybody is talking about different things 
> > here.
> 
> Maybe you will be able to explain why OOo has support for countries /
> languages / writing systems on the Country embargo list, then.

If nobody names them I cannot comment on them.
Again: It was not the korean language or the korean writing system that
was rejected. 

What was rejected is a feature only useful to NK (or people having to do
with NK). While this is not necessarily true 100%, the concern ist:
Explain that to the US-Authorities

> At a minimum, Sun legal should be consistent in the patches that they
> accept/reject.

At a minimum people should name facts, name the issues they're talking
about. Before they start a big discussion.

What other patches for languages/countries on the embargo list are you
talking about?

> >distribute a modified version of OOo that includes support for this charset.
> 
> How about a python script that converts plain text to/from Unicode? 
> Once in Unicode, it can be edited in OOo.
> 
> That doesn't solve the problem of:
> a)  writing to the character encoding. 
> b) Reading non-plain text files that use that character encoding.

A version of OOo that inlcudes the patch solves these problems.

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: Jimi Hendrix - Freedom

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