From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 12:23:32 EST
On 08/12/2003 08:37, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
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>>I may have missed or misunderstood the details, but it has been
>>clearly stated here in the last few days that (a) there are more
>>than 11,000 redundant Korean characters in the BMP, and (b) many
>>precomposed Korean characters lack canonical or even compatibility
>>decompositions which would be desirable.
>>
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>Jungshik has been saying for years now that (a) the 11,172 precomposed
>syllables are redundant, since they can all be easily decomposed into
>jamos. He also said recently that (b) the jamos that represent doubled
>sounds or "letter clusters" had compatibility equivalences in Unicode
>2.0, but these were subsequently removed, and that this too was a
>mistake.
>
>So there are (a) 11000+ redundant Korean characters, and there are (b)
>Korean characters without decompositions. But there are not (a × b)
>"11000+ redundant Korean characters without decompositions."
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Thank you for the correction.
Do the 11,172 precomposed syllables actually have canonical or
compatibility decompositions? Are they composition exclusions?
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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