Re: bugs in JOHAB converter

[Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>]

Jungshik Shin writes:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your fixes. 
> 
> I don't have JOHAB spec. handy so that I can't comment on  fixes (most
> of typos seemingly made by me appear to be fixed correctly) other than
> mapping 0x5c <-> U20A9. There's a good reason I commented out that part
> when I submitted the JOHAB module for iconv.

Well, my patches implement the official unicode.org table
    http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/EASTASIA/KSC/JOHAB.TXT
which carries your signature. It maps 0x5C to U+20A9.

> Whatever ISO646-KR says,
> it would surprise a lot of people if 0x5c in their JOHAB encoded document
> is converted to HALF-WIDTH WON SIGN(U20A9) because they don't mean it.
> (To represent WON SIGN, people usually use FULL-WIDTH WON SIGN and 0x5c
> is used for 'back slash' as in US-ASCII) Granted, I guess it's better
> to identically map 0x5c to U005C both in JOHAB and EUC-KR.

OK, why don't you update the unicode.org table then? You are the
ultimate Korean encoding expert in the world.

Bruno