Message-Id: <199601311542.QAA17714@dkuug.dk>
From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:42:33 +0100
In-Reply-To: Glenn Adams <glenn@stonehand.com>
To: Glenn Adams <glenn@stonehand.com>
Subject: Re: html, http, urls and internationalisation
Glenn Adams writes:
>
> From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:14:43 +0100
>
> ... for example big-5 is not covered by ISO 10646 ...
>
> Why do you say this? I have a mapping table from BIG5 to 10646.
> BIG5 was one of the source sets used by the original CJK-JRG in
> developing the Unified CJK Repertoire 1.0 which went into Unicode 1.0
> and then into 10646.
>
> Perhaps you are confusing BIG5 with the new version of CNS 11643,
> which, indeed, is not fully covered by 10646 (although the previous
> 1986 version of CNS 11643 was covered).
I may have been confusing it with CNS 11643. There is one of the
big character sets that covers something like 90.000 characters,
this was the one I meant. Sorry for the confusion. The problem still
exist that not all characters of the world is in ISO 10646.
Keld