Re: 3.2 MAPPINGS/EASTASIA

[David Starner <starner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0900, Gaspar Sinai wrote:
> I noticed that at ftp.unicode.org /Public/MAPPINGS/EASTASIA
> has been moved to OBSOLETE directory. README.TXT reads:
[...]
> The question is: What is the best source for these maps?
> Is there a place where they are centrally maintained?

Kenneth Whistle answered this recently on the Unicode mailing list
(attached). Basically, the maps aren't standardized, especially not by
Unicode (unlike ISO-8859-* and most other Western charsets, which are
all defined by their creators by reference to Unicode.) Furthermore,
there are enough differences in usage between systems that it's
questionable what they should be standardized on.

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