Re: *Complete* Big5 to Unicode mappings

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:44:57 EDT

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    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
    jenkins@apple.com
    jhjenkins@mac.com
    http://www.tejat.net/



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