<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this subject has been seriously muddled by misinformation, thus causing those who are not completely familiar with the way that Hangul is encoded in Unicode to be mislead.</span></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The proposed label step:</span></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">toNFKC(toCaseFolded(toNFKC(</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">label))) != label</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></blockquote><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">is pointless, since case folding doesn't have any effect on Korean characters (jamo or syllables) and any label is guaranteed to be in NFKC format anyway, due to other provisions in Tables and Protocol. The compatibility jamos are also not in question, since they also not in NFKC.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The characters in question are all and only the following:</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The conjoining Jamos.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=1100"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1100</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL CHOSEONG KIYEOK</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">…{88}…</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=1159"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1159</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL CHOSEONG YEORINHIEUH</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=1161"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1161</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL JUNGSEONG A<br>
…{64}…</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=11A2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+11A2</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL JUNGSEONG SSANGARAEA<br>
</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=11A8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+11A8</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL JONGSEONG KIYEOK</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">…{80}…</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=11F9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+11F9</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> HANGUL JONGSEONG YEORINHIEUH</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hangul Syllables.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=AC00"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+AC00</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> ( 가 ) HANGUL SYLLABLE GA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">…{11170}…</span></span><code><a target="c" href="http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=D7A3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+D7A3</span></span></a></code><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> ( 힣 ) HANGUL SYLLABLE HIH</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Any sequence of Jamo syllables that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">could</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> correspond to a Hangul Syllable according to the Unicode Standard canonical equivalence is transformed into it by the toNFKC function. Thus a sequence of Jamo syllables that could correspond to a HS according to the Unicode Standard *cannot* be in an IDNA2008 label according to Tables and Protocol.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That's is meant by saying that there is no comparison problem. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Anything that is equivalent to a HS according to TUS will already be a HS in an IDNA2008 label according to Tables and Protocol already.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, one could have a contextual rule that forbade Jamo in situations where they could not be part of a valid syllable, and if people really wanted that we could do it.</span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">But frankly, it is not worth the effort. Unlike the case of the ZW joiners, these are not invisible characters; the worst that would happen is someone would see nonsense on the screen -- but it is not our place to try to forbid nonsensical labels.</span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>This is clearly a case where the Korean NIC is free to narrow the set of labels they accept to exclude non-modern characters, just as the German NIC is free to exclude archaic German characters, or the British NIC free to exclude archaic English characters (like <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; ">Þ or ð).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="all">Mark<br><br><br></span></span>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Vint Cerf </span></span><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><<a href="mailto:vint@google.com">vint@google.com</a>></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> wrote:<br>
</span></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Consensus Call Tranche 8 (Character Adjustments) - Addendum</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I neglected to summarize a number of messages relating to the JAMO discussion (they had subject fields that were specific to the JAMO discussion and did not appear when all the email was sorted with the original subject of the consensus call)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a result, the polling actually produced 9 YES and 8 NO - still clearly no final consensus. </span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(8.c) Disallow conjoining Hangul jamo per recommendation from</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">KRNIC and others, permitting only precomposed syllables.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">COMMENTS:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I agree with the line of thought that we really should not disregard the results of the consensus position established by the most relevant language community after a rather extensive consensus process, so in general, I would side with the experts in Korea.</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, having been through this discussion for many times, I understand that there are opinions otherwise and am hoping to make a suggestion that could reconcile the lines of thought and be consistent with our architecture. When we last discussed the issue of conjoining Hangul Jamo, I had suggested exploring the possibility of addressing them in the following manner:</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1. categorize all Hangul Jamo as CONTEXTO</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2. add stability contextual rule for these codepoints where the following must be true:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">toNFKC(toCaseFolded(toNFKC(</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">label))) != label</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not familiar enough with Korean, but this might strike a graceful balance between disallowing conjoining jamo that forms a modern hangul and continue to allow archaic Jamo without creating too much of a confusion?...</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If I recall correctly, there was response that it seemed interesting, but was not further discussed. Do people think it might be a viable approach to resolve the issue?</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> ================</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As I understand it, and I agree, it might not solve all the issues (as it stands, still thinking), but it does solve 2 types of issues:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1. combination of modern Jamos that do combine to a Hangul syllable, e.g.:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1109;U+1161;U+11BC => U+C0C1</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In this case, the use of <U+1109;U+1161;U+11BC> would effectively be disallowed.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2. combination of modern Jamos with old Jamos which combine to 1 Hangul syllable and 1 old Jamo, e.g.:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1109;U+1161;U+11F0 => U+C0AC;U+11F0</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In this case, also, the use of <U+1109;U+1161;U+11F0> would be effectively disallowed.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems to me, if we are going to not disallow jamos, this would at least be a measure to avoid some of the most obvious problems in the context of IDN.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The cases where no combination happens under KC are the cases which would need further investigation. It may be possible to add additional rules based on the algorithms for displaying Hangul characters....?...</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">=======</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:17px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> Mark Davis <</span></span><a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0018e8" style="color:#0018e8"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">mark@macchiato.com</span></span></u></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:56 AM</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> That is, each of the Hangul precomposed syllables decomposes into one or two</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">one or two (wrong)---> two or three (correct) (Am I missing something here?)</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> combining jamo under NFD, and under NFC that sequence of combining jamo composes</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> back into that syllable. The comparisons *do* work correctly,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">> since IDNA labels have to be in NFC.</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- Well, I would have to disagree with you.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me explain why the above claim is not correct.</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- According to UCS (ISO/IEC 10646), each of the following three can represent</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hangul syllable GGA:</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1) UAC01 (GGA)</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2) U1101 (GG), U1161 (A)</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">3) U1100 (G), U1100 (G), U1161 (A)</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> - By NFC, 2) U1101 (GG), U1161 (A) will be changed to 1) UAC01 (GGA);</span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> - However, by NFC, 3) U1100 (G), U1100 (G), U1161 (A) will be changed to</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U1100 (G), UAC00 (GA), which is "different" from 1) UAC01.</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> > The comparisons *do* work correctly,</span></span></font></div>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- ??? Isn't it considered comparison failure? (Am I missing something here?)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- As we saw, NFC/NFD does not work correctly even for modern Hangul,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(not to mention Old Hangul)!</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[comment by another WG member:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is indeed the correct analysis. I find it very unfortunate</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that U1101 (GG) does not have a *canonical* decomposition mapping</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to <U1100 (G), U1100 (G)> (etc. for all the other multi-letter</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hangul Jamos). The Hangul script does NOT have a primitive Jamo</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">GG. The Hangul GG is, by design, composed of two G Jamos, just</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">like Latin GG is composed of two G letters.]</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[comment by another WG member:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading through section 3.12 of Unicode 5.0 is somewhat confusing,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">because it tries to be very, very general for determining sylable</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">boundaries (virtually everything goes, as long as you can somehow</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">imagine that you might make a Korean syllable block out of it,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">even if no such block ever has been made), whereas the descriptions</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for canonical composition and decomposition are quite limited</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(one block <=> two or three Jamo, depending on whether there is</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a final consonant (group) or not). As an example, the sequence</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:15px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1101 (GG) U+1100 (G) U+1100 (G) U+1100 (G) U+1161 (A),</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">summarily written GGGGGA, would be a "Standard Korean syllable</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">block", too, the same way we would probably expect GGGGGA not to</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">be broken up by a hyphenation algorithm, whether it looks totally</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">silly (and in the Korean case, there's no way to display it as</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a reasonably-looking syllable block) or not.]</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[comment by another WG member:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it's very easy to take this position indeed. Also, it's</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">also possible to take the position that U+110F is the result of</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">adding a stroke to U+1100 (the equivalent, although in this day</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and age much less clear, example would be that G is just a</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Latin (in the true sense of the old Romans) C with a stroke or</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">hook added). The Korean script is so well designed that it's</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Lucida Grande"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">difficult to know where to stop these decompositions.]</span></span></font></div>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Note. For example, in XML 1.0 (fourth ed), 2) U1101 (GG), U1161 (A) is NOT allowed since #x1101 is not included; in contrast, 3) U1100 (G), U1100 (G), U1161 (A) IS allowed.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(source :</span></span><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#NT-BaseChar" target="_blank"><font color="#0018e8" style="color:#0018e8"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">REC-xml-20060816/#NT-BaseChar</span></span></u></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.#x1100 | [#x1102-#x1103] | [#x1105-#x1107] | #x1109 | [#x110B-#x110C] |</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[#x110E-#x1112] | #x113C | #x113E | #x1140 | #x114C | #x114E | #x1150 |</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[#x1154-#x1155] | #x1159 | [#x115F-#x1161] | #x1163 | #x1165 | #x1167 | #x1169 |</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[#x116D-#x116E] | [#x1172-#x1173] | #x1175 | #x119E | #x11A8 | #x11AB |</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[#x11AE-#x11AF] | [#x11B7-#x11B8] | #x11BA | [#x11BC-#x11C2] | #x11EB | #x11F0 |</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">#x11F9 | ..</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">KIM, Kyongsok</span></span></font></p>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">* I have been a chair of Korea JTC1/SC2 (a committee on Coded Character Set) since 1993.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This committee represents Korea in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 which is in charge of UCS (ISO/IEC 10646).</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">====</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to know where in ISO/IEC 10646 the type of sequence described in 3 is 'allowed' to represent such Hangul syllables. Because to the best of my knowledge it is not.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If it is not, the whole argument falls flat.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">IN XML 1.1, the syllable itself GGA is already allowed in the same BaseChar production list: "[#xAC00-#xD7A3]", so the Hangul syllable repertoire is already covered w/o adding that sequence explicitly, and the syllable is the NFC representation of the GGA syllable.</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Michel Suignard</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(project editor for 10646)</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[Note by another WG member:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">10646 is rather silent on that mattar. But see the Unicode</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">standard. In version 5.0 this is discussed in section 3.12,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Conjoining jamo behaviour". The key sentence there states:</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unicode> Standard Korean syllable block: A sequence of one or more L</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unicode> followed by a sequence of one or more V and a sequence of zero</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unicode> or more T, or any other sequence that is canonically equivalent.]</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">=====</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unicode> Standard Korean syllable block: A sequence of one or more L</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unicode> followed by a sequence of one or more V and a</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sequence of zero >Unicode> or more T, or any other sequence</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that is canonically equivalent.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;color:rgb(0, 0, 221);min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading through section 3.12 of Unicode 5.0 is somewhat confusing,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">because it tries to be very, very general for determining sylable</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">boundaries (virtually everything goes, as long as you can somehow</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">immagine that you might make a Korean syllable block out of it,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">even if no such block ever has been made),</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"no such block ever has been made" is not a consideration for an</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">alphabetic script, like Hangul. But there are practical limitations</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of size in this case, since one tries (in display/print) to fit all</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">letters of a syllable into a graphical block the size of an ideograph. </span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some "syllables", like GGGGGA in Hangul, would simply be too crammed</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(unless the block size was gigantic). On the other hand, GGGGGA is</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">not a very reasonable "syllable" in text representing real (and</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">reasonably spelled) words.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">whereas the descriptions</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for canonical composition and decomposition are quite limited</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(one block <=> two or three Jamo, depending on whether there is</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a final consonant (group) or not).</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, but that is only a subset of the possible (and reasonable)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">syllables that can be written in Hangul. It only covers (a superset</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of) what occurs in "modern Hangul" (modulo the multiletter issue),</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but has really nothing to do with how the Hangul script is constructed.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As an example, the sequence</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U+1101 (GG) U+1100 (G) U+1100 (G) U+1100 (G) U+1161 (A),</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">summarily written GGGGGA, would be a "Standard Korean syllable</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">block", too, the same way we would probably expect GGGGGA not to</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">be broken up by a hyphenation algorithm, whether it looks totally</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">silly (and in the Korean case, there's no way to display it as</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a reasonably-looking syllable block) or not.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;color:rgb(0, 0, 221);min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;color:rgb(0, 0, 221);min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">KIM, Kyongsok wrote:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">... each of the following three can represent Hangul syllable GGA:</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1) UAC01 (GGA)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2) U1101 (GG), U1161 (A)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">3) U1100 (G), U1100 (G), U1161 (A)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> - By NFC, 2) U1101 (GG), U1161 (A) will be changed to 1) UAC01 (GGA);</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> - However, by NFC, 3) U1100 (G), U1100 (G), U1161 (A) will</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">be changed to</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:30px"><font color="#540000" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#540000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">U1100 (G), UAC00 (GA), which is "different" from 1) UAC01.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px;color:rgb(0, 99, 18);min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is indeed the correct analysis. I find it very unfortunate</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that U1101 (GG) does not have a *canonical* decomposition mapping</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to <U1100 (G), U1100 (G)> (etc. for all the other multi-letter</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hangul Jamos). The Hangul script does NOT have a primitive Jamo</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">GG. The Hangul GG is, by design, composed of two G Jamos, just</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:20px"><font color="#006312" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#006312"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">like Latin GG is composed of two G letters.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;color:rgb(0, 0, 221);min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it's very easy to take this position indeed.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And is also how the Hangul script was actually designed.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, it's</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">also possible to take the position that U+110F is the result of</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">adding a stroke to U+1100 </span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That is not how the Hangul script was designed, and is thus a</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">misinterpretation.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(the equivalent, although in this day</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and age much less clear, example would be that G is just a</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Latin (in the true sense of the old Romans) C with a stroke or</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">hook added). The Korean script is so well designed that it's</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px"><font color="#0000dd" style="font:12.0px Helvetica;color:#0000dd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">difficult to know where to stop these decompositions.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">While that parallel holds for the strokes (dots originally, which</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">was a bit unfortunate graphically) for the vowels (for instance</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hangul O is NOT a composition of EU and ARAEA), and certain of the</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">consonants (e.g. THIEUTH is a primitive letter that happens to have</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">one more stroke than TIKEUT) it does not hold for the doubled consonants</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(like SSANGKIYEOK) nor for any of the other multiletter Jamos (like</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hangul E *is* a composition of Hangul EO and Hangul I).</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The design documents, both editions, are quite clear on these matters.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So there is no reason to guess how the Hangul letters, and letter</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">combinations, are constructed. While one may find the philosophy</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for the graphical design of the individual letters to sometimes be</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a bit doubtful, esp. for the vowels, it is clear what are individual</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">letters, and what are compositions of letters.</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">See the original design document, translated to English in</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Korean Language, Ho-Min Sohn, Cambridge University Press, 1999,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ISBN 0-521-36123-0 or 0-521-36943-6. (Section 6.3 gives a translation</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to English of the 1444 design document for the Hangul alphabet.)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Also (facsimile only, no translation), in</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A history of Korean Alphabet and Movable Types, Ministry of Culture</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and Information, Republic of Korea, 1970. (Part 1 reproduces the 1444</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">official design document for the Hangul alphabet.)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The revised and extended Hangul design document, reproduced,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">translated to English (and analysed) in:</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Korean alphabet of 1446 – Expositions, OPA, The visible speech</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">sounds, Annotated translation, Future applicability; Hwun Min Ceng</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Um, Sek Yen Kim-Cho, Humanity Books and AC Press, New York, 2002,</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ISBN 89-428-1587-1. (Reproduces, translates and analyses (in English)</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the 1446 official design document for the Hangul alphabet.)</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The extended document from 1446 introduces the kapyeoun- combinations as</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">compositions with IEUNG at the end. It is clear that the little circle</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">below is really a IEUNG, not something else.</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This book from 2002 also introduces an interesting possible extension</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to Hangul, putting "annotations" on the (primitive) Hangul letters</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">within syllable blocks, for use as a phonetic notation.</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Also of relevance:</span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Korean Alphabet, its history and structure, ed. Young-Key</span></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kim-Renaud, University of Hawai'i Press, 1997, ISBN 0-824-81989-6.</span></span></font></div>
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