Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-27 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > For Johab, no new table is necessary because Hangul precomposed >> > syllable mapping (to Unicode) is algorithmic while Hanjas and symbols can >> > be mapped to KS X 1001 algorithmically and then mapped to Unicode >> > using KS X 1001 mapping tabl

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:40:56PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > > for this? In case of Johab, the easiest way to add support for it is to > > just generate the mapping table for it, but I feel uncomfotable bloating > > the code when it can be done algo

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:40:56PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > Before going further, I have a question or two. It appears that > euc-kr, ksc5601-raw(ksc5601-gl or whatever) and cp949 have their own > mapping tables although they're closely related. Is there any reason > for this? In case of Joh

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:40:04PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:48:53AM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > BTW, how about Big5-HKSCS(Hongkong), GBK, and GB18030(PRC)? > > > > I *think* (but me speekee no Chineese) we do support those in Encode, > > but for space c

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Mozilla and so forth. I'm not blaming any one here for the lack of > > support for Johab and CP949. (that's the last thing I'd do). Anyway, > > I'll try to help you with Korean encodings and other CJK encodings if > > necessary. > > Excellent,

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:48:53AM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > BTW, how about Big5-HKSCS(Hongkong), GBK, and GB18030(PRC)? > > I *think* (but me speekee no Chineese) we do support those in Encode, > but for space considerations one has to install an additional module, > Encode::HanExtra

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:16:01PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > BTW, I don't find any reference to Microsoft code pages > (CP949 for Korean, CP950, CP 936 , and CP932), JOHAB(Korean), and > Big5-HKSCS Is that because they're not yet supported (well, Shift-JIS > and Big5 are supported)? CP94

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> Well, CJKV information processing by Ken Lunde provides > more than enough information to support JOHAB and CP949/UHC/X-Windows-949 :-). > In addition to that, there are existing implementations, glibc,libiconv, > Mozilla and so forth. I'm not blaming any one here for the lack of > support for

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > BTW, I don't find any reference to Microsoft code pages > > (CP949 for Korean, CP950, CP 936 , and CP932), JOHAB(Korean), and > > Big5-HKSCS Is that because they're not yet supported (well, Shift-JIS > > and Big5 are supported)? > > AFAIK, t

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> BTW, I don't find any reference to Microsoft code pages > (CP949 for Korean, CP950, CP 936 , and CP932), JOHAB(Korean), and > Big5-HKSCS Is that because they're not yet supported (well, Shift-JIS > and Big5 are supported)? AFAIK, they're not yet supported, since we have not had Korean expe

Re: Encode: CJK-Guide

2002-03-26 Thread Jungshik Shin
Here's some feedback. > Republic of > Korea (South Korea; simply "Korea" as follows) has set KS C 5601 in > 1989. They are both based upon JIS C 6226, could be one of the KS C 5601 was first issued in 1987 and revised in 1989 and 1992. Then, it was renamed and reissued as KS X 1001:1998 in 1