Re: [OT] CJK -> CJC (Re: Corea?)

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 15:09:41 EST

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    On 15/12/2003 11:13, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >As for ISO 3166, this whole morning I've had my fingers crossed that the
    >MA won't jump at the opportunity to assign a new code for "Corea"
    >(possibly reassigning a formerly used code, or breaking their own rules
    >about exceptional reservations, as they did with ROU). But I suppose
    >they will consider it their mandate to do so.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Then let's hope that ISO 10646 doesn't decide to break its own rules and
    change "KOREAN" to "COREAN" in character names e.g. U+321D. Think what
    that would do to the Unicode stability policy - although in fact only
    five names are affected. 

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Peter Kirk
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