Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 00:07:19 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system Message-ID: <4A00B897.809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090428180624.GA2223@britannica.bec.de> References: <aa9f273a8313c6436e76fa9f5d587ef4.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F5FE45.2090101@freebsd.org> <20090427193326.GA7654@britannica.bec.de> <20090427194904.GA11137@zim.MIT.EDU> <49F6C7A1.6070708@FreeBSD.org> <20090428122225.GA2862@britannica.bec.de> <24e9a86bf5995ba551db8f27aa204191.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090428180624.GA2223@britannica.bec.de>
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Joerg Sonnenberger escribió: > > Unicode covers Korean. It just violates the "one logic character equals > one UCS-4 character" or however you want to put. More trivial example > can be obtained when looking at both your and my name. Diacrets have > historically been part of the character, but it is possible to use > combining characters in unicode for the cleaner description. > OK, I know that but that's other problem. You explicitly wrote that there were characters, which couldn't be represented un UCS-4, that was what I reacted on: > Everything can be represented as UCS-4 is a bad > assumption, but something Americans and Europeans naturally don't have > to care about. Cheers, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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