[idn] Re: new hangul nameprep issue

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@pantheon.yale.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Soobok Lee wrote:

 Hi,

> Thanks for your valuable contributions. I promise to investigate
> it thoroughly.

> First, please test the enclosed link in IE 5.0, 5.5, 6.0  in Win 2K
> and Win XP.

  I'm sure MS IE 5.0/5.5 doesn't work.  As I wrote earlier,
even MS IE 6.0 under Korean MS Office XP wouldn't work for sample
cases in your test page (MS hasn't yet added support of generic Hangul
syllable formation stipulated in TUS 3.0 for modern Korean - which
can be represented by precomposed Hangul syllables at U+AC00 block -
although it supports that for Middle Korean.) However, two test cases
in my test page at <http://jshin.net/i18n/uyeo.html> are likely to work
in MS IE 6.0 + Korean MS Office XP/Korean MS Windows XP.

> That contains some javascript codes to make on-the-fly html containing
> the 3 sequences you give me.
> In my win2k and IE 6.0 (english version) rendering,
> syllable breaks are assumed in the choseong sequence.
> I will test this link in other platforms.

> http://164.124.123.207/etc/f8.html

  BTW, I'm afraid your javascript(ECMAscript) is not compliant to
ECMA-262
(ftp://ftp.ecma.ch/ecma-st/Ecma-262.pdf) and  ISO/IEC 16262.  unescape()
is not a part of the standard (see section B.2 of ECMA-262) so that
unescaping "%uhhhh" is not supported by Netscape   although it's
supported
by MS IE.  You can simply use "\uhhhh" to include Unicode characters in
a string (see section 7.8.4 of ECMA-262)

  Regards,

  Jungshik Shin