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Re: Unicode 3.2 support (6)
- From: Anthony Fok <anthony at thizlinux dot com>
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, James Su <suzhe at turbolinux dot com dot cn>,Roger So <roger dot so at sw-linux dot com>, Andrew Fung <atcfung at itsd dot gov dot hk>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:00:06 +0800
- Subject: Re: Unicode 3.2 support (6)
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Dear all,
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Anthony Fok writes:
> > I guess calling it "BIG5-HKSCS-1999" is a misnomer.
> > In big5-iso.txt, the two are called:
> >
> > HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
> > and
> > HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
>
> So I'll call the first one (which corresponds to your
> big5hkscs-2001.c) "BIG5-HKSCS-INTERIM", and the second one
> "BIG5-HKSCS".
I just read Andrew's e-mail (thanks for your clarification, Andrew!).
Hhe would like to see that the names will help convey the idea that one
supports UCS-4 (beyond BMP) and the other one doesn't. So, how about
the following instead? :-)
"BIG5-HKSCS-UCS2" for "HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000"
"BIG5-HKSCS-UCS4" for "HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001"
and make the name "BIG5-HKSCS" an alias of "BIG5-HKSCS-UCS2" until
2004. Is that alright? :-)
BTW, I recommend using James' big5hkscs.c instead. His table is much more
compact, and the design is cleaner than mine too. The result of the
conversion is identical. :-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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