it in text, despite the fact that it's in all our
fonts).
Anyone who *does* use it in text is free to use U+F8FF, as we do, to map
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, and future compatibility
ideographs will be excluded from use in IDN. (Actually, you could save
yourself some grief right off by excluding Han radicals and all
compatibility ideographs.)
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On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Thomas Chan wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, John H. Jenkins wrote:
However, this is already a problem in Unicode. shuowen.org will have
to
register both U+8AAAU+6587.org and U+8AACU+6587.org; Jingwa,
Inc., will need both U+4E3CU+86D9 and U+4E95U
On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 12:29 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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{TC1, SC1, SC2, TC2, TC3, SC3} constitute a Han simplification
class (HSC), and are all the same when appearing in IDNs.
Correct?
Oui.
The caveat is that this must be understood to be a first-order
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Actually, no. Both KangXi and the Cihai list U+8721 (蜡) as a traditional
character in its own right, although I assume it's rare as I can't find it
in my other dictionaries.
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an organization like Unicode, simply hasn't been the done.
(Maybe an ambitious university student with an MA thesis to write
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of 32 scripts would have no choice but to hijack one
of the existing codes and reuse it for their own purposes.
In this case, there's clearly an Inuit system for the Mac out there which
has hijacked the Ethiopic script code in the absence of any other that
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On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Suzanne M. Topping wrote:
Does anyone know if this is a known problem?
It's a known problem and is being worked on.
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Just to swerve the topic of conversation here, in the E for effort
department, what about a statue to the Emperor Claudius for at least
trying to add letters to the Latin alphabet? And does anybody know what
the letters *were*?
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of 40,000
characters involved, we cannot guarantee that they are all perfectly
accurate. Meanwhile, the *official* definition of the character is its
mappings and the *informal* definition is its glyph. That's as much as
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. On the other hand, there *is* just the one
document (or board game), so there's only so much one can do.
And it remains the only encoding proposal sent to the UTC which
contains the entire known corpus of writing in the script as a part
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a copy of his
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burden on the user? If
anything, plain text is becoming an increasingly rare beast except in
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Pinyin, which leaves us to puzzle out how to prounce
qun and xue, while still mispronouncing cun and peng. In my eyes,
it's a tie.
Yeah, well, they're both based on the wrong dialect, anyway.
Barbaric Mandarin-speaking northerners. :-)
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for them in plain text, and
definitely *not* to use distinct code points to represent them.
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At 5:28 PM +0100 10/2/01, Michael Everson wrote:
The CSUR is maintained to support scripts of various kinds. Some of
those (Shavian, Deseret, Tengwar, Cirth) are expected to graduate
into Unicode.
And one of them already has!
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but doesn't work on X. Yet.
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are supported
from 8.5 onwards in ATSUI.
John Jenkins at Apple can probably provide more precise information.
He may or may not want to burden you with knowledge of the esoteric
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Unicode, as well, since all text on Cocoa is Unicode.
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At 6:05 PM -0700 7/8/01, Richard Cook wrote:
John H. Jenkins wrote:
It is on occasion something of an art figuring out the correct
radical/stroke position for a character in this kind of an index, sad
to say.
I'd say, when 2 radicals are possible, put it under both. When 3, well
... you
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matter).
Meanwhile, there are all kinds of handy indexing schemes for Unihan,
and it would be nice to provide the data to use them; the main
problem is that Unicode's resources to generate data like that are
extremely limited. Donations, meanwhile, are welcome.
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been willing to sell data to the Unicode Consortium, but we
really don't have any kind of budget for this sort of thing. All the
data in the Unihan database has been donated, none of it bought.
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the radical-stroke data. The next problem is my finding the time to
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John H. Jenkins wrote:
The main problem is
that the only set of data we have right now that covers everything is
the radical-stroke data. The next problem is my finding the time to
produce PDFs of the alternate indices.
Has the UNIHAN.TXT
that the font that Unicode uses must
be coordinated with the IRG work. MS doesn't have that restriction.
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position for a character in this kind of an index, sad
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the characters?
FWIW, there is a small but non-zero Shavian user community, and a
number of fonts are available, some of them very pretty.
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it, the only signs
which are sufficiently well understood that they would meet criterion
(1) are already in Unicode in the form of their modern forms. I
could be wrong and am starting to research the matter myself.
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and not
the hexagrams, although I know why it worked out that way. Richard,
are they used much *outside* of the Yi? If so, I think it's
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look-up by
component and pinyin. The current alpha version has full Ext A and B
support. Look for a new release soon.
Let me echo that. Wenlin is a marvelous reference program for anyone
interested in CJK.
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it as if it were French.
Even when one writes Cantonese and not Mandarin, most of the
characters used are the same. Many common words are completely
different, of course, but the bulk of the vocabulary goes across
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an East Asian
language, hanzi would be best. (I'm tempted to say that Honjih
would be best, but I'll be a good boy and resist.)
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At 1:34 PM -0500 5/2/01, Ayers, Mike wrote:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2.pdf appears to be missing. Am I
looking in the right place?
Unfortunately, it isn't available yet. Unicode doesn't have a Plane
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of the chemical elements, until
recently the word for computer). It really isn't possible to
convert between simplified and traditional characters without doing a
lexical analysis.
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it. Whenever I need to type Deseret, I use
an IM that converts to Latin to Deseret on the fly.
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, but there really are people out
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in Extension B are required for JIS X 0213
support, which is going to be a sine qua non in Japan within a few
years. There was a push a little while ago to put these characters
on the BMP for precisely this reason, but it was opposed both within
the UTC and WG2 and then abandoned.
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is *NOT* the official site. They are not in any way
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he'd have cared).
OK, as the resident Asimov nut I have to weigh in.
Sorry, the story is *not* by the Good Doctor. Although he was very
fun of the feghoot and wrote several, this isn't one of them. And
yes, he was *very* sensitive about the spelling and pronunciation of
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As for OT support, we're investigating how this might be done on the
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standardization on this planet.
I believe that recent evidence shows conclusively that the Phaistos
disk is a written in a syllabic script that requires 1,234,567 unique
precomposed symbols. :-)
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it. Any
non-fictional script ditto.
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and ATSUI require special tables in a font for it to work
correctly with complex scripts. Since the special tables are
different for the two technologies, in order for a font to work with
both systems it needs both sets of extra tables.
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The IRG is unifying in plane 2, as well.
Nobody in the IRG has suggested that we abandon unification for plane
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and Polish accents? Or Fraktur and Italic and Roman styles of Latin?
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, Arabic, Indic scripts),
but it *still* has problems with the metrics for Chinese. Some of my
ad hoc "scripts" work and some don't, which is better than was the
case for Word '98.
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any reality at all behind it, or is it just noise and slander?
Considering the fact that they say that CJK is done with a
pictographic writing system, they call ß a "beta," and they know
nothing about surrogates (just after a surface reading), I'd say they
don't know what they're t
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Because of persistent problems with the charts.unicode.org server, we have moved the
PDF files containing the charts for Unicode 3.0 to http://www.unicode.org/charts/.
The Web charts and Unihan database remain at the same URLs. Please update your
bookmarks appropriately.
sed to talking about "imaginary" and
"irrational" numbers, too. (My thirteen-year-old refuses to believe that imaginary
numbers are "real." *sigh*)
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disastrous when done once that makes everyone determined not to do it
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(and not Japanese) will give you
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At 12:09 PM -0800 7/28/00, Curtis Clark wrote:
At the other extreme, the unique, undeciphered Phaistos disk script
was turned down for inclusion.
Actually, to be strict about it, it wasn't turned down. Its status
is "unapproved."
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between different locales results in different
stroke counts.
2) We only use one glyph for the character even so.
Oh, and
3) The RS index is produced by computer, so unexpected data can have
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On Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at 12:49 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
BTW, did anyone get the smileys right at the first sight?
They looked OK to me.
At 2:33 PM -0800 7/14/00, Tex Texin wrote:
And do we know which locale we are debating the pronounciation of?
Michael is in Ireland, not sure where John hangs his hat.
Salt Lake City, where people go fishing in the cricks. We seem to
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question. We'd need to get a solid survey of
the oracle bone characters and their modern counterparts. One problem
is that a significant percentage of the former aren't identified (or
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At the same time, it would be nice to have a Unicodally correct way
of referring to planes 1 and 2, since there is an important boundary
between them.
And of course, the *proper* way to refer to plane 14 is to pretend it
doesn't exist at all. :-)
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characters recently standardized
(e.g., JIS X 0213, HK GCCS), fills in the nooks and crannies from CNS
11643-1992, and adds what's needed to fully cover the Hanyu Da Zidian
and KangXi. Maybe they'll start on the Shuowen next and then move
back to pre-Zhou stuff. :-)
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was broken the last time I checked.
Well, but the roadmap for Plane 2 is *really* simple. You just fill
it with 40,000+ ideographs from the bottom up.
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