- From: Soobok Lee <lsb@postel.co.kr>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:21:44 +0900
- To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
- Cc: GIM Gyeongseog-KIM Kyongsok <gimgs@asadal.cs.pusan.ac.kr>, jshin@pantheon.yale.edu
Dear all, As a newbie in this list, i am curious about why "windows-949" or "cp949" (Korean) was not enlisted in IANA charsets lists. As you know, "windows-949" is "KS_C_5601-1987" + some extended hangeul syllables + extended chineses characters , most of which came from KS_C_5601-1992 annex 3. CP949 is a superset of KSC5601, though not approved by korean gov, it became the defacto standard charset by the monopoly of MS Windows 95 and above. Microsoft products seems to use KS_C_5601-1987 as an alias to CP949, but it is not correct. Instead, MS products use "EUC-KR" for original KS_C_5601-1987 charsets. But, EUC-KR is just an encoding defined on KSC5601 , and If KSC5601 is further extended, EUC-KR should follow it, and that means EUC-KR charsets should not be fixed because it is an open set of characters with EUC-KR-defined 2byte encoding over KSC5601 variants. Soobok Lee
Received on Thursday, 18 July 2002 02:24:30 UTC