Re: Erratum in Unicode book

[John H. Jenkins]

At 9:42 AM -0400 7/9/01, Tom Emerson wrote:
>Not a fair question. Obviously someone who has never counted strokes
>before is going to guess four, until you explain to them the rules,
>which are quite logical. So you propose that someone has to memorize
>200+ radicals in addition to counting strokes? Please.
>

Most Chinese dictionaries, at least the good ones, which are keyed to 
radical-stroke will *also* have a stroke-based index, and a list of 
characters with unexpected radicals.  As I say, there's no reason why 
we can't provide more than one index to Unihan.  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.

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