On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Andrew C. West wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:20:00 -0800 (PST), Michael Everson wrote:
ME> These 950 syllables are insufficient to express anything but ME> newspaper and bureaucratic Tibetan. ACW> everything, and if the proposal were to be accepted, the existing Tibetan ACW> character encoding model would still have to be used on occasion to encode ACW> rarely seen forms. Having to use both precomposed forms and the existing Tibetan characters would lead to a pretty severe headache when it comes to normalization as Ken mentioned taking an example of Korean script. As I mentioned many times, there are so many unnecessary precomposed forms and cluster letters encoded for Korean script in Unicode although only 45(= 17 consonants x 2 + 11 vowels) plus a few more letters would have been sufficient. This makes the normalization a lot more complex(and 'dirtier') than otherwise. I hope Chinese nat'l standard body and Tibetans involved in the proposal will learn a lesson from Korean example and be persuaded to withdraw their proposal which is misguided as you wrote and as short-sighted as Korea's successful attempt 10 years ago. On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 02:10:13 -0800 (PST), Marco Cimarosti wrote: MC> 2. Come up with a precise machine-readable mapping file between MC> BrdaRten encoding to *decomposed* Unicode Tibetan, possibly MC> accompanied by a sample conversion application. ACW> The mapping is simple, and given a mapping table I could write a ACW> conversion application in five minutes. If anyone thinks that a mapping ACW> table would be useful as a weapon in the fight against the Chinese ACW> proposal, I would be happy to provide one. I think what Marco suggested would be very good to have when persuading Chinese and Tibetans however easy it's to produce them. Wouldn't it be a bit tedious, though? Perhaps, with 900+ of them, it might not. I have about 5000 archaic precomposed Korean syllables encoded in PUA to decompose into Jamo sequences and it's not so fun. I just have to print them all out and input them with U+1100 Jamos, but typing them all takes a lot of time. Jungshik
