Hi, At Thu, 10 Jan 2002 04:46:42 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> By the way, I notice this page contains "mappings to major standards" > including Big5 and GB 2312. Also, JIS, and I assume there's established > mappings between JIS and EUC-JP, and probably for the other languages, > too. > > "The mappings to major standards have been exhaustively proofed and are > a normative part of Unicode." (http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html) > > "A normative part of Unicode" sounds very authoritative; am I missing > something? CJK standards such as JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, GB 2312, KS X 1001, and Big5 contains not only Han Ideographs but also various characters such as Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Latin Alphabets, Greeks, Cyrillics, punctuations, other symbols (like square, triangle, circle, dagger, ...). For Han Ideographs, a unique authorative mapping table is available. For other parts , no authorative mapping tables are available. --- 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/
