From everson@indigo.ie Fri Apr 19 12:44:50 1996 Received: from aoife.indigo.ie (aoife.indigo.ie [199.186.52.9]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA18375; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:44:45 +0200 Received: from [199.186.52.91] (dublin-ts3-91.indigo.ie [199.186.52.91]) by aoife.indigo.ie (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id LAA15262; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:32:38 GMT X-Sender: everson@mail.indigo.ie Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:44:19 +0100 To: kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr (kim kyongsok) From: everson@indigo.ie (Michael Everson) Subject: Re: Proposed 2-letter script code standard Cc: 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 At 11:48 1996-04-19, kim kyongsok wrote: > >:"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). > >i lost the e-mail address of whchoi. >he preferred Ko to Hg. > >Well... In ISO 10646-1, the name is shown as >Hangul (0x1100 -..., 0xac00-...) >(I guess he might not have noticed this.) > >So... Hangul is the name used in ISO docs for our script. In general the script codes were, when possible or sensible, based on the 2-letter language codes as well. Korean language is "ko"; so I used "Ko" for Hangul. I did the same for the Gurmukhi script ("Pa") used for the Punjabi language ("pa"). I have used "Hg" for Hiragana anyway. The country code for North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is "KP" and the country code for South Korea (the Republic of Korea) is "KR". Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta 15 Port Chaeimhghein =CDochtarach; Baile =C1tha Cliath 2; =C9ire (Ireland) Guth=E1in: +353 1 478-2597, +353 1 283-9396 http://www.indigo.ie/egt 27 P=E1irc an Fh=E9ithlinn; Baile an Bh=F3thair; Co. =C1tha Cliath; =C9ire