Hi, At Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:16:50 +0900 (JST), Gaspar Sinai wrote:
> I would like to have local encoding -> Unicode character mappings > published by the Consortium - otherwise I am not convinved that > Unicode is supporting characters in national standards - which may > question its usability. I think so. You may be surprised to hear that Unicode Consortium does not release Unicode <-> JIS X 0208 mapping table. There are at least several incompatible mapping tables and I have sent mail to Unicode Consortium to deal with this problem for a few times. Unfortunately, since major vendors such as MS and Apple use different mapping tables, it seems to be politically impossible to develop a common mapping table. However, I recently sent another mail to ask Unicode Consortium to at least know existing tables and manage not to increase number of incompatible mapping tables. I received a reply mail from Kenneth Whistler that they will discuss on this point in the next Unicode Technical Committee. I think Unicode Consortium's standpoint is that mapping tables between Unicode and other encodings should be maintained by the standard body of the "other encodings". I think your and my interests are almost same; we need a relyable mapping table, though there are some timy difference in our opinions. If you have any oppinions, I recommend you to mail Kenneth Whistler or other Unicode members real soon, because the Unicode Technical Committe will start soon (according to http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html , it will start at April 30.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
