RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

2001-07-04 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Christopher John Fynn wrote: (Couldn't a ZWJ be used as a way of joining two trigrams as a hexagram?) No! :'-(( Please don't overpollute the ZWJ. There's already more semantics to that codepoint that one can simply count on her/his fingers... roozbeh

RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Richard Cook wrote: --A: They are compositionally formed from the 8 trigrams. Rebuttal: By this reasoning, the 8 trigrams themselves ought not to have been encoded, since the 8 trigrams can be generated from simple broken and unbroken lines. This alone is not a reason to encode them, but

RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

2001-07-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 11:40 AM 7/3/2001, Christopher John Fynn wrote: Richard Cook wrote: --A: They are compositionally formed from the 8 trigrams. Rebuttal: By this reasoning, the 8 trigrams themselves ought not to have been encoded, since the 8 trigrams can be generated from simple broken and

RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

2001-07-03 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:59 -0700 2001-07-03, Edward Cherlin wrote: But I thought proposals for characters with decompositions into existing characters are no longer being accepted. True for accented letters where the combining marks already exist, but I don't think we want to have two sets of trigrams, one

Re: New characters query (Hexagrams)

2001-07-03 Thread Richard Cook
Michael Everson wrote: At 13:59 -0700 2001-07-03, Edward Cherlin wrote: But I thought proposals for characters with decompositions into existing characters are no longer being accepted. True for accented letters where the combining marks already exist, but I don't think we want to