RE: Subj: Conversion method from Korea KSX to Korea Unicode

From: Phillips, Addison (addison@amazon.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 12:41:45 CDT

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    Hi Andy,

    The short answer is "no". KS-X-1001 doesn't map in a linear or algorithmic way to the Unicode character set, so conversions between this pairing requires a mapping table. A good starting point to read about this is here:

      http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/conversion.html

    See, for example, this page of one of the relevant mapping tables used in ICU:

      http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/convexp?conv=windows-949-2000&b=85&s=ALL#layout

    Notice that, for example, the first two code points mapped go from AFBF to AFC1, skipping AFC0.

    Note that you probably should not write your own converter. Depending on your platform, you may find that there is built-in or library support for doing the conversion available to you that is both reliable and fairly small (on Unix, for example, using GNU's iconv or using ICU).

    Hope that helps,

    Addison

    Addison Phillips
    Globalization Architect -- Lab126

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    It is an architecture.

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    > Subject: FW: Subj: Conversion method from Korea KSX to Korea
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > Date/Time: Fri May 29 03:47:52 CDT 2008
    > Contact: andy.lau@continental-corporation.com
    > Name: Andy
    > Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Opt Subject:
    > Conversion method from Korea KSX to Korea Unicode
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I am working on a radio project where I need to map Korea KSX1001
    > to Korea unicode of MP3's filename, without using a big mapping
    > table.
    >
    > Do you have the method or alogrithm to perform the mapping from
    > Korea KSX1001 to Korea unicode?
    >
    > I am using C language.
    > Thanks.
    >
    >
    > Regards,
    > Andy
    >
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