Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
> A while ago, I tried to perform a similar exercise: work out which
> characters in Unicode are "atomic", [...]
> The result is at <http://www.doves.demon.co.uk/atomic.html>.
I find that it is a very interesting work. You are too humble if you
consider it just a joke.
As a minimum, it can be an excellent pre-analysis for planning the design of
fonts.
> It would be very entertaining to do the same job with the
> ideographs (down
> to the radical level) and count the number of atoms.
I am afraid that it would be a very long work, as entertaining as cooking
stuffed arms.
But I am sure that, if such a work would ever see light, Markus Scherer's
"WCode" would look as subversive as Queen Mother's room maid.
_ Marco
