From whchoi@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Fri Apr 19 04:26:23 1996 Received: from cosmos.kaist.ac.kr (cosmos.kaist.ac.kr [143.248.172.41]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA13598; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 04:26:11 +0200 Received: (from whchoi@localhost) by cosmos.kaist.ac.kr (8.6.12h2/8.6.12) id LAA12174; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:19:00 -0900 From: Woohyong Choi Message-Id: <199604192019.LAA12174@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr> Subject: Re: (SC22WG20.1553) Proposed 2-letter script code standard To: kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr (kim kyongsok) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:18:59 -0900 (GMT) Cc: everson@indigo.ie, kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr, i18n@dkuug.dk, iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu, sc22@dkuug.dk, sc22wg20@dkuug.dk, sc2wg3@dkuug.dk, tc304@dkuug.dk, wg6@smo.uhi.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <199604181301.PAA03596@dkuug.dk> from "kim kyongsok" at Apr 18, 96 09:22:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21-h4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1305 i don't think this argument makes sense. you can argue like this once the "official" country name of "korea" were to be changed to something else. as i recall, the official english country name of the entity what we are talking about is "republic of korea" -whchoi > 1. regarding Hangul: "ko" seems funny. Korea refers to a kingdom > that collapsed in the 10th century. Currently the official name of SK is > "Dae-han-min-Gug (or Han-gug in short)", and that of NK is > "Jo-seon Min-ju-ju-eui In-min Gong-hwa-gug (or Jo-seon in short?)". > The kingdome right before Hangug(SK)/Joseon(NK) was Joseon, > which collapsed in 1910 (when, Japan colonized the whole Korea). > Therefore, "Korea" seems funny (at least to me). > Actually, many Koreans think that the term "Korea" is simply wrong, > a misnomer coined by Westerners. > (Japan has a similar situation: Japan vs. Nippon.) > > Now, I suggest that "Hg" be used instead of "ko" > (which seems an abbreviation of Korean). > > 2. I suggest that the following two items be added > - Idu (Id): used in korea 5c -15 c (?) [I am not an expert] > - Gugyeol (Gg): used in korea in the past and still used by a few people. > > > 3. There are four codes for Han ideographs. What are the differences? > > thanks in advance. > > k kim > > >