Discrepancies between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode in the Unihan database - repost all ascii

2014-09-09 Thread John Armstrong
[Apologies if this issue has already been resolved. I searched the Unicode.org site for discussions but I only found document dating from 2003 which touches on the issue: andrewcw...@alumni.princeton.edu RE: Unicode 4.0.1 Beta Review 1. kRSUnicode Field (

Re: Discrepancies between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode in the Unihan database

2014-09-09 Thread Andrew West
Hi John, You raise some interesting points, and I hope that one of the people who maintain the Unihan database can address your issues better than I can. I think that the reason why the main CJK block shows the greatest number of mismatches between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode is related to the

Re: Discrepancies between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode in the Unihan database - repost all ascii

2014-09-09 Thread Richard COOK
On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Richard COOK rsc...@wenlin.com wrote: On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:03 PM, John Armstrong john.armstrong@gmail.com wrote: Mr. Armstrong, I see that my reply to your message bounced from the main Unicode list, due to length constraints. At any rate, the message did

Re: Discrepancies between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode in the Unihan database

2014-09-09 Thread John Armstrong
Thanks for the comments Andrew. When I wrote up my second example I was not yet thinking of the complicating factor of the coexistence 3- and 4-stroke variants of Radical #140 'grass' in top position. #140 is not the main radical in the example but it is the radical of the phonetic, and if the

Re: Discrepancies between kTotalStrokes and kRSUnicode in the Unihan database - repost all ascii

2014-09-09 Thread John Armstrong
Thanks for your long and detailed reply Richard. (The full version came to me directly so I could see it.) It will take me some time to digest it, but I since you suggest I submit something to UTC I want to clarify the extent of my knowledge of and ongoing involvement with Han characters. I