I'm surprised nobody took Dan the Silly Man to task on this one. > English enjoys new words on-the-fly. > What a pity Kanji on-the-fly is a taboo, at least on Unicode ;)
Can you name a character encoding standard, anywhere in the world, invented by anybody -- government, industry consortium, private company, individual, kwijibo, ANYBODY -- that can do better in this regard than Unicode? Can you name a font technology that will support the display of these "invented-on-the-fly" Kanji? For that matter, can you invent a Kanji on the fly that cannot be represented (perhaps in a rather cumbersome way) with Ideographic Description Characters? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
