Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units

From: Philipp Reichmuth (uzsv2k@uni-bonn.de)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 12:38:09 EDT


DE> The Egyptian pharaohs and Chinese emperors were generally viewed as gods
DE> or demigods.

Oh, aren't North Korean political leaders? ;-)

DE> For the North Koreans to encode special "emphasized" Hangul characters
DE> for the names of their two "Great Leaders," Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il,
DE> in their national standard -- going so far as to encode separate
DE> characters for "Kim" and "Il" for each leader, though the two were
DE> father and son -- and to propose these "emphasized" characters for
DE> ISO/IEC 10646, seems extremely backward and/or extremely repressive, at
DE> least to this Westerner.

What about round-trip compatibility?

  Philipp mailto:uzsv2k@uni-bonn.de
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