[Fwd: XML Blueberry Requirements]

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 Misha.Wolf@reuters.com wrote:

>    XML Blueberry Requirements
>    W3C Working Draft 20 June 2001
[snip]
> | As a result, fully native-language XML markup is not possible in at
> | least the following languages: Amharic, Burmese, Canadian aboriginal
> | languages, Cantonese (Bopomofo script), Cherokee, Dhivehi, Khmer,
> | Mongolian (traditional script), Oromo, Syriac, Tigre, Yi. In addition,
> | Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Hangul script), and Vietnamese can make use
> | of only a limited subset of their complete character repertoires.

Hi Misha, John,

I believe the comment about the Bopomofo script is a reference to the
"Bopomofo Extended" block (U+31A0 to U+31B7) added in Unicode 3.0, which
is intended for the Minnan (Southern Min) and Hakka Chinese languages
(as spoken in Taiwan), not Cantonese.


Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu