On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > Andrew C. West wrote: > > If anyone thinks that a mapping table would be > > useful as a weapon in the fight against the Chinese proposal, > > I would be happy to provide one. > > Do you have the relevant data? As I said, so far I found little or nothing > about "BrdaRten" or about the "Founders System" mentioned by Ken Whistler.
Previously, Ken Whistler said: One additional detail for people. The BrdaRten stacks are currently implemented, in the Founders System software in Tibet, as an extension to GB 2312. This sounds like they might have been implemented as a vendor extension in the private/end-user area of GB 2312, if it is anything like how as-yet-unencoded Han characters are treated. If so, then one'd probably need access to a font itself to see. Looking at Founder's site, I found this, a bunch of Tibetan fonts they make: http://font.founder.com.cn/chanpinzl/CP_zangwen.htm In the body text, they describe Tibetan as 600+ (pre-composed) characters, and 4,400+ if Sanskrit is included. But next to each font, it says 4000+ for the first one (Tibetan and Sanskrit), 2000+ for the second one (Tibetan and Sanskrit), and for the last three, 800+ (Tibetan). WG2 N2558 only proposes 956 pre-composed, so I'm not sure what these different numbers mean, except that counts sometimes cavalierly include irrelevant stuff like punctuation and symbols to pad the number. But so far I haven't seen anything strongly linking Founder to WG2 N2558, except that the latter mentions Founder as an *example* of a precomposed Tibetan implementation (2). We don't necessarily want to be making vendor/legacy/font-based to unicode mapping tables for every potential vendor, do we? Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
