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Re: 3.2 MAPPINGS/EASTASIA

Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:

> http://www.jca.apc.org/~earthian/aozora/0213.html
> http://www.jca.apc.org/~earthian/aozora/0213/jisx0213code.zip
> 
> http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/
> http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/N807_TablesX0123-UCS.zip

Thanks a lot for these pointers! With this information, I can write a
JISX0213 converter for glibc and libiconv.

> Strictly speaking, JIS X 0213:2000 *cannot* be defined as a mapping
> table against ISO 10646, because JIS X 0213's han unification rule
> is different from ISO 10646's one.  (You know, Unicode added several
> tens of compatibility ideographs which are "different characters" in
> JIS X 0213's point of view and "different glyphs of the same
> character" in Unicode's point of view.)

I'll make use of these 59 compatibility ideographs in the converter.
That's the whole reason why they were introduced in Unicode 3.2.

Bruno
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