On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 10:43 , Jungshik Shin wrote:
>> Amendment 5 to 10646 was the culmination
>> of the comic opera which resulted in 11,172 Hangul syllables in
>> the standard, despite the fact that everyone knew that that was
>> insufficient for Old Korean, and that combining jamo would have
>> to be used for that, anyway.
>
> I can't agree with you more on this. A very clear example of
> the incompetence and short-sightedness of Korean nat'l standard body
> which
> vehemently pushed it thru. Arguably this significantly delayed support
> of Middle Korean (on most platforms and by most programs) by blinding
> most developers to the fact that Hangul, too, needs to be treated like
> Indic/Thai and other complex scripts because 'modern day-to-day' needs
> are fulfilled by 11,172 precomposed Hangul syllables. Much more
> arguably,
> having only 2,350 Hangul syllables (for the sake of compatibilty with
> legacy KS X 1001) might have sped up a little support of other complex
> scripts in some cases.
Seems like we share the common problem; The (local) government which
has no idea on character encodings. I know we need to fix our
government before Unicode but hey, those whom I voted for hardly ever
win elections :(
One of the reasons that Unicode is yet to gain popularity in Japan is
the fact that Unicode doesn't enhance DOMESTIC writing, unlike Hangul.
The Japanese lack the strong incentive to go for Unicode. Unicode
indeed needs a killer app (or a killer site; such site that everyone
finds imperative AND needs UTF-8 to view the page). Till then, most of
the web pages would stay EUC-JP (i.e. www.yahoo.co.jp ; EUC-JP is easier
on CGIs), mails would stay ISO-2022-JP, and most of the text files stay
Shift_JIS....
Dan the Taxpayer Who's Paying too Much for Too Little Outcome
P.S. Jungshik, seems like you are a Korean expert who knows about
character encodings. If you know perl as well, would you help us on
Encode module, that will enable next official perl to handle not only
Unicode but also other Encodings? If so please join perl-
unicode@perl.org
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