Erik van der Poel wrote on 2002-03-05 17:20 UTC:
> You're absolutely right. I checked unicode.org, and all of the East
> Asian tables have been moved to a directory called OBSOLETE. The readme
> file says August 1, 2001.

The reason is that the availability of these tables led people to the
implementation of too simple-minded Unicode -> EUC converters.

See

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#conv

Converters are supposed to extract the conversion information from the
UniHan table instead and normalize the Unicode text first.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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