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Re: EUC-KR and the Won sign
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Subject: Re: EUC-KR and the Won sign
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Oct 2000 10:22:11 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <14825.39921.94934.184323@honolulu.ilog.fr>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
> The Unicode half-width WON sign is mapped to EUC-KR full-width WON sign
> because that makes more sense than mapping it to backslash (and on Unix
> we don't use that character as a directory/filename separator). Recall
> that Jungshik Shin wrote on 2000-09-25 (talking about JOHAB, but I
> suspect this also holds for EUC-KR):
> "To represent WON SIGN, people usually use FULL-WIDTH WON SIGN"
No, this seems not to be true. EUC-KR break,s ISO C, so what? If
this is what everybody else is using there will be no change. And the
information I have in the moment (from at last two sources) shows that
the Won character is normally used.
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