Re: whether ASCII for Korean language or not !!!

From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 11:39:47 EDT


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, SOS (Univ. Bonn) wrote:

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "Ankur Mahajan" <ankurm@delhi.tcs.co.in>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. August 2002 13:12
> Betreff: whether ASCII for Korean language or not !!!

 It's certainly possible to make a single byte character
set(with 186=94*2 graphic characters) a la ISO-8859-x for
Korean Hangul. As a matter of fact, such a character set __was__
used in mid-1980's on Korean Unix system(V7 Unix) and perhaps on
other platforms. Besides, South Korea and North Korea agreed to
devise a new ISO 2002 compliant single byte character set for Korean
script(Hangul/Chosun-gul/Jeong-eum). (I don't know what it's for though
since we now have Unicode.)

> Well obviously not: Unicode 3.0 has AC00 to D7A3 for Hangul Codes.

  That's only for complete modern syllables. In addition to that,
U+1100 block has to be used for the full support of Korean Hangul.

  Jungshik Shin



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