On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0900, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > > I noticed that at ftp.unicode.org /Public/MAPPINGS/EASTASIA > > has been moved to OBSOLETE directory. README.TXT reads: > [...] > > The question is: What is the best source for these maps? > > Is there a place where they are centrally maintained? > > Kenneth Whistle answered this recently on the Unicode mailing list > (attached). Basically, the maps aren't standardized, especially not by > Unicode (unlike ISO-8859-* and most other Western charsets, which are > all defined by their creators by reference to Unicode.) Furthermore, > there are enough differences in usage between systems that it's > questionable what they should be standardized on.
Thank you for the quick answer. Can someone on this list maintain these mappings? I know this would not be an easy job :( One more thing: I implemented GB-18030 (Chinese) codepage standard in a patch to yudit 2.5.4: http://www.yudit.org/download/patch-src/yudit-2.5.4.patch3.txt This will be in the upcoming 2.6 together with other Unicode 3.2 changes. GB-18030 encodes the entire Unicode range U+0000...U+10FFFF in a way to keep upwards compatibility with GB-2312-1980. It is interesting that there is at least one standard that was created with explicit reference to Unicode - sitll I could not find a map for it in /Public/MAPPINGS/ gaspar -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
