From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:44:57 EDT
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 05:44 AM, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> It would be nice to have official Unicode mappings for all the
> NON-ideographic characters in East Asian character sets (the mappings
> for
> ideographic characters being already available in
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.txt).
>
Yes, it would be nice. But, fundamentally, there was nobody who was
willing (or had the time) to take the responsibility of maintaining
these mapping tables. Hence they were obsoleted. (Plus there are some
really nasty issues for some of them.)
> Basically, all is needed is to get the old mapping files from
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA and to strip
> off
> all the ideographs from them.
>
Are you volunteering? :-)
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John H. Jenkins
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