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Re: Unicode 3.2 support (6)


Hi all,

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 13:00, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > So I'll call the first one (which corresponds to your
> > big5hkscs-2001.c) "BIG5-HKSCS-INTERIM", and the second one
> > "BIG5-HKSCS".
> 
> I just read Andrew's e-mail (thanks for your clarification, Andrew!).
> Hhe would like to see that the names will help convey the idea that one
> supports UCS-4 (beyond BMP) and the other one doesn't.  So, how about
> the following instead?  :-)
> 
> 	"BIG5-HKSCS-UCS2" for "HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000"
> 	"BIG5-HKSCS-UCS4" for "HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001"
> 
> and make the name "BIG5-HKSCS" an alias of "BIG5-HKSCS-UCS2" until
> 2004.  Is that alright?  :-)

The above sounds like the two are equal in importance, but doesn't
convey the fact that the UCS-2 mapping is deprecated ... how about
BIG5-HKSCS-DEPRECATED instead?

Cheers

Roger
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