Unicode 3.2 support (6)

[Anthony Fok]

Dear all,

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Anthony Fok writes:
> > I guess calling it "BIG5-HKSCS-1999" is a misnomer.
> > In big5-iso.txt, the two are called:
> > 
> > 	HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
> > and
> > 	HKSCS-2001 in ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
> 
> 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?  :-)

BTW, I recommend using James' big5hkscs.c instead.  His table is much more
compact, and the design is cleaner than mine too.  The result of the
conversion is identical.  :-)

Cheers,

Anthony

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