SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:53:10PM +0200, G?bor K?vesd?n wrote:
> >> It's possible that there are little poor countries with an own writing
> >> system but probably their writing system is unsupported because the
> >> starvation, poorness and lack of water and electricity are more serious
> >> problems there.
> >
> > I wouldn't call all both parts of Korea little poor countries and it is
> > a wonderful example for why UCS 4 Level 1 can be problematic.
> >
> 
> 
> I didn't know about Korea. Then I insist even more on that Unicode should
> be extended to cover them instead of making implementation-specific
> solutions.

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.

Joerg