SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 5 22:07:23 UTC 2009


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,

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