On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jungshik Shin wrote: >> Arguments over glyphs have bedevilled the acceptance of Unicode in the >> CJK countries, and you still hear people in Japan saying "Unicode
> Korea that was simply not the case. Unicode was *hailed and accepted* > ( rather than bedeviled ) as the way for the future (especially to > overcome the *deficiency* of 'bedeviled' KS C 5601/KS X 1001). Some Let me just give you some examples. Korean Language Institute (under the arm of Ministry of Education of ROK) web site at http://www.korean.go.kr almost exclusively uses UTF-8. KS C 5601/KS X 1001 based encoding such as EUC-KR simply cannot work for their purpose because they have to put up a lot of modern and old Korean literatures which have modern Hangul syllables, Old Hangul syllables, and a lot of Chinese characters not representable/not included in KS C 5601/KS X 1001. Only Unicode/ISO 10646 offers 'the' standard (as opposed to proprietary) way to represent them. All three major word processors for Korean, MS Word 2000/XP, Arae-Ah Hangul (Hangul Wordian) and Hunminjongum, support Old Hangul with Unicode U+1100 Jamo block. Korean MS Windows XP also comes with the built-in support for Old Hangul with U+1100 Jamo blocks and I believe fonts and the input engine for Old Hangul will eventually be released to non-Korean version of MS-Windows XP users. MS IE 5.5/6.0 also support this. Mozilla has some support for Old Hangul, but it will follow at least under MS-Windows once a new input API for Windows XP (code name 'cicerro') is digested by mozilla developers. Input method should not be hard under X11, but a much tougher issue to tackle is how to make dynamic on-the-fly glyph shaping work and how to make the freely distributable minimal set of fonts that work with glyph shaping infrastructure. I think Robert Brady's Pango_Ligature_Hack can be extended to deal with U+1100 Hangul Jamos. However, that's only for bitmap fonts. (Korean) linux developers have a very long way to go to catch up with MS Windows 2000/XP in this aspect. Jungshik Shin _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
