From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3830 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: iconv Korean and Traditional Chinese research so far Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 08:46:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20130805124618.GF221@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20130804232816.dc30d64f61e5ec441c34ffd4f788e58e.313eb9eea8.wbe@email22.secureserver.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375706795 9652 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2013 12:46:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 12:46:35 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3834-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Aug 05 14:46:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6KBE-0004yB-AI for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:46:32 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17829 invoked by uid 550); 5 Aug 2013 12:46:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17821 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2013 12:46:31 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130804232816.dc30d64f61e5ec441c34ffd4f788e58e.313eb9eea8.wbe@email22.secureserver.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3830 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:28:16PM -0700, writeonce@midipix.org wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [musl] iconv Korean and Traditional Chinese research so far > From: Rich Felker <[1]dalias@aerifal.cx> > Date: Sun, August 04, 2013 10:00 pm > To: [2]musl@lists.openwall.com > Being that HKSCS is a standard, registered MIME charset and the cost > is only 10k, and that it seems necessary for real world usage in Hong > Kong, I think it's pretty obvious that we should support it. So I > think the question we're left with is whether the CP949 (MS encoding) > extension for Korean is important to support. The cost is roughly 37k. > > In case that helps: Korean typesetting packages for > TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX do provide support for CP949. This includes > the most recent versions; see, for instance: > [3]http://osl.ugr.es/CTAN/macros/luatex/generic/luatexko/luatexko-uhc2utf8.lua > There are also several packages that support UHC, which allegedly overlaps > with CP949: > [4]http://www.ctan.org/topic/korean > Best regards, > zg Thanks. I've also seen a fair number of bug reports asking for programs that lack it to add support, so it seems there is at least some demand. I'm going to go ahead and look into whether there's a way we could do slow but algorithmic conversion (e.g. are all the characters outside the standard range allocated sequentually based on the set missing from the standard range?) since that would make the question of whether or not it's needed fairly irrelevant. Rich