On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:34:53PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, David Starner wrote:
>
> > I think what makes Ohta-san angry is that the Japanese didn't get to
> > make Unicode. When reading his complaints, I always remember that
> > they're coming from someone who put forth ISO-2022-INT, an
> > 'international' encoding that supports only Japanese and Chinese well.
> > (And maybe Korean.)
>
> ISO-2022-JP-2 tries to encode Japanese, Chinese(simplified, tranditional)
> and Korean coded character sets for mail exchange.
ISO-2022-INT was basically an extension of ISO-2022-JP-2, with
additional Chinese charsets, keeping ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-7 as
the only non-CJK charsets. It also only has KS C 5601 for Korean, so it
doesn't include a complete set of Hangul characters.
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet)
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