Re: 3.2 MAPPINGS/EASTASIA

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:58:57 +0200 (CEST),
Bruno Haible wrote:

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

Please note that these tables may unofficial.
Though jisx0213code.txt insists that it is built from
official JIS X 0213 standard, it insists that 1-1-29
is changed from U+2015 to U+2014 because of JIS X 0221
standard.  The JISX0213 InfoCenter web page insists that
it should be a bug of JIS X 0213 standard.  Also, since
JIS X 0213 standard was released in 2000, the official
mapping table should have unmapped characters.

According to README.txt file in the IBM1394 archive,
it should be related to CP932.  Thus, I don't think it
is a good source as an official JIS X 0213 mapping table.

I think you can use either of them (or a combination of
them).  However, it is with a risk.  I imagine a new
version of JIS X 0213 will be available in afew years and
it will have a complete official mapping table.  In this
case, mapping table of glibc and libiconv will have to
be changed.

You can wait for the official mapping table or you can
implement a tentative table from jisx0213code.txt and
IBM1394.  Either will be OK.


> 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.

Right.  The problem is, there are no official mapping tables
which use them yet.

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