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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2>Mark Davis<SPAN
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<DIV>I think this conversation is muddying the waters
thoroughly.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
Hangul script design (of 1444/1446) per se is very clear. Its implementation in
character</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>encodings is very muddy.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>When normalization was defined, it was clear that it would not do
everything that everyone could possibly have wanted. <SPAN
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size=2> </FONT></SPAN>Speaking to John's "casual reader", what Kent is
talking about is something that Kent has raised repeatedly before as something
he would have liked for normalization to have done.<BR><BR>But it wasn't done,
and won't be done, and has no impact on the stability or utility of
normalization.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Due to
the normalisation stability policy I have never requested normalisation to do
this. That it cannot be</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>done is still unfortunate, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>and indeed makes
the Hangul waters forever thoroughly muddy. I do find it </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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size=2>sad</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>that
the world most elegantly designed script is also the one that has the messiest
character encoding.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=992445707-21022008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> /kent k</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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