Hi, At Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:24:30 +0900 (JST), Gaspar Sinai wrote:
> The question is: What is the best source for these maps? > Is there a place where they are centrally maintained? I found a document in IRG reports page: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/ http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/N724_WG2n2223R.pdf The pdf file (2000-06-01) says: Japan proposes WG2 to open the discussion on the issues described in this document. ... Issue-4: Mapping information. To avoid the mapping data inconsistency problem. It is better that the mapping data should be defined within the source standard. ISO/IEC 10646 does have only a data of the name of the source standard for the COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPHS. The mapping data is only necessary for the users of the source standard. The other users are not expected to use the COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPHS in principle. Though I don't know what is the result of this discussion, I think this may be a reason of Unicode Consortium's standpoint that it is not responsible for mapping tables. I am now trying to confirm whether JIS has released an authorized mapping table between JIS (JIS X 0201, JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, and JIS X 0213) and Unicode (ISO 10646, JIS X 0221). However, I didn't find anything on the net so far. And more, even if JIS releases an authorized mapping table, what we have to cope with is various mapping tables which are widely used by various vendors. In other words, even if we Open Source people were to adopt orthodox JIS mapping table, there would remain Windows, Macintosh, Java, and other systems which use different mapping tables for identical character set. So far, I think we should tentatively adopt Bruno Haible's libiconv as a Unicode <-> EUC-JP mapping table, which I think is identical with GNU libc's table and XFree86's table. --- 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/
