Re: questions about windows-949

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

the common reason for a charset not being registered is that nobody has 
registered it.

Microsoft seems not to think that registration is useful to them at the 
moment, so several MS charsets are registered by other people.

                 Harald


--On 18. juli 2002 15:21 +0900 Soobok Lee <lsb@postel.co.kr> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>