L2/00-291 From: Michael Everson [everson@egt.ie] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: (SC2.584) Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289) The following are my personal views on the four new papers from the D.P.R. Korea. ========== N2243 PROPOSAL FOR THE ADDTION OF 14 KOREAN ALPHABETS TO ISO/IEC 10646-1 The proposal seems incomplete. Some of these look like existing characters (though we will have to check). There are no samples provided, unfortunately, and the bibliographical references are not complete. ========== N2244 PROPOSAL FOR THE ADDITION OF 82 SYMBOLS TO ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 TO ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 We should thank the D.P.R. Korea for this contribution. At the outset, it looks as though some of these characters can be unified with others, and some should be rejected because they are logos. But many of them may be good candidates for inclusion. There are no samples provided, unfortunately, though it appears a number of these are requested as compatibility characters. ========== N2245 PROPOSAL TO CHANGE EXISTING NAME OF KOREAN CHARACTERS IN ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000. The names of characters encoded in ISO/IEC 10646 and the Unicode standard shall not be changed. We have told the representatives from the D.P.R. Korea that this is the case. No amount of information that they supply will get us to change the names. This proposal cannot be entertained. ========== N2247 PROPOSAL TO ADD THE HANJA COLUMN OF D. P. R. OF KOREA IN ISO/IEC 10646-1 (14938 IDEOGRAPHS TO CJK UNIFIED IN ISO/IEC 10646-1 (14938 IDEOGRAPHS TO CJK UNIFIED IN ISO/IEC 10646-1 (14938 IDEOGRAPHS TO CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHS AND 3181 IDOGRAPHS TO ITS EXTENSION A) Publication difficulties may make it impossible to add a new column for the D.P.R. Korean characters. The entire set needs to be commended to the IRG for unification. I think it highly improbable that there are 15,000 North Korean ideographs additional to those already encoded and/or unified from South Korea. ========== Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland Vox +353 1 478 2597 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Mob +353 86 807 9169 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Co. Átha Cliath; Éire