> Unicode does not collect glyphs but characters (and cf. section 2.1 of UTR > #17, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr17/). This is a fundamental > property of the Unicode standard. I am everything but a CJK expert, but > along the same idea, the Han characters were unified because they meant the > same thing (semantics) not because of glyph similarities.
erm, no. "meant the same thing" is not the right phrase for how CJK unification works. The right answer is discussed in Section 2.2 (Unicode Design Principle) of The Unicode Standard v3.0. Anyhow, this thread does not belong IDN wg. Lets not get into this. -James Seng
