Ãke Persson wrote: > Korean > http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n1051-hangulsort.pdf
When looking at this document, I see that it needs a separate codepoint (actually a separate weight) to represent the KAPYEOUN- variants of CHOSEONG and JONGSEONG consonnants. However, the Hangul script seems to be consistent (including for its representation as glyphs), if <KAPYEOUN-consonnant> is decomposed simply as <consonnant, IEUNG>. I spoke with a Hangul writer, and he also thinks that there's no difference (beside the name) between: CHOSEONGs: - <KAPYEOUNRIEUL> and <RIEUL, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNMIEUM> and <MIEUM, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNSSANGPIEUP> and <PIEUP, PIEUP, IEUNG> and <SSANGPIEUP, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNPIEUP> and <PIEUP, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNPHIEUPH> and <PHIEUPH, PIEUP> JONGSEONGs: - <RIEUL-KAPYEOUNPIEUP> and <RIEUL, PIEUP, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNMIEUM> and <MIEUM, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNPIEUP> and <PIEUP, IEUNG> - <KAPYEOUNPHIEUPH> and <PHIEUPH, PIEUP> So I wonder if the "special" weight given to KAPYEOUN- should not simply the same weight as IEUNG, so that KAPYEOUN is simply a special name for IEUNG which is not pronounced by itself, but alters the phonetic of the associated consonnant. Also, there is no other "-IEUNG" suffixed consonnants in the encoded Johab and Wangsung sets (beside SIOS-IEUNG, CIEUC-IEUNG, however there's no similar KAPYEOUNSIOS and KAPYEOUNCIEUC). In any case, the KAPYEOUN- consonnants all use the horizontal oval stacked below the modified letter, exactly like compounf jamos terminated by IEUNG... So readers could not tell the difference if there was one. So KAPYEOUN are merely a traditional name kept even after the formal modern definition of the Hangul alphabet. And finally it seems consistent with North and South Korean collation orders (however I did not check extensively this to be sure), and the fact that it is known that there are only 17 basic consonnants (leading or trailing) and 11 vowels in the Hangul script, plus "fillers" artificially created only for syllabic encoding purpose. Compatibility jamos (from Wansung) are also made of 17 basic consonnants (without the distinction between leading/trailing) and 11 basic vowels and Half-Width variants of these, probably coded to avoid too long rendered syllables when the jamos are basic enough to make it a true alphabet with unmarked syllable breaks (which could be used to transliterate Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, possibly with additional diacritics borrowed from general left-ot-right scripts). __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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