Hi all,
I'd like to ask for a brief hold on the removal before the patch
is committed.
JOHAB is formally specified in KS C 5601-1992 Annex 3 (later
renumbered KS X 1001:1992), a Korean national standard published
by the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS). This
document is written in Korean, and I believe a native Korean
speaker reviewing the original standard directly is the most
reliable way to verify the correct byte ranges and resolve the
ambiguity that has been mentioned in this thread.
I am currently looking into the original standard document and
will follow up with a precise specification and a fix patch
shortly.
One point worth considering before removal: JOHAB may be obsolete
for new systems, but legacy Korean data from the 1990s does exist
in old archives, government records, and university systems. As a
client encoding, JOHAB support in PostgreSQL provides a useful
migration path for loading such data. Removing it closes that door
permanently with no way back.
I am Korean, and I would like to take responsibility for verifying
the standard and submitting a proper fix.
Regards,
Henson
