> > Can anyone with a bit of Kanji knowledge check this page: > > http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/manyoshu/AnoMany.unavailable.html > > and tell whether all of the "missing" Kanji are in Unicode 3.2? A bunch > of them are shown as not available in the Dai Kanwa, but I'm under the > impression that the Dai Kanwa is covered by Unicode these days; so maybe > someone would only have to check the items marked "nashi" for the Dai Kanwa > column in that table.
Item A: U+2261F Item D: U+218B3 ... and no, I don't have time to go down and check the others marked "nashi" in the list. > In any case, the Manyoushuu can certainly be expressed in Unicode 3.2 with > ideographic description sequences -- and the above mentioned page does > essentially that: it describes all of the Kanji that are "missing" from the > encoding (listed as "x-euc-jp" in the web page; presumably being JIS X > 0208 compatible). In my casual perusal I don't see anything that looks > unexpressible with IDS. Nor do I. In fact the AnoMany.unavailable.html page has its own home-brewed IDS system to describe the missing "gaiji" for Manyoushuu, so I see no particular barrier to simply converting those to Unicode IDS for descriptions, in case the search for characters in Extension A or Extension B turns up any missing. --Ken
