On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 01:55 AM, Sun Guonian wrote:
> Hi, all, > I am a newbie of this list. > In unihan3.20, I take notice of that there is 6 types of variant. > I want to know if the "kSpecializedSemanticVariant" relationship > is symmetrical, and other 5 types of variant? There's no guarantee for it. The kTraditionalVariant and kSimplifiedVariant should be symmetrical with respect to each other (if U+XXXX is a kTraditionalVariant for U+YYYY, then U+YYYY should be a kSimplifiedVariant for U+XXXX). kCompatibilityVariant is expressly *not* symmetrical. kSemanticVariant should reasonably be symmetrical, but there is no guarantee. The same is true for kZVariant. > the second question is, > what does the x-variant or/and y-variant mean ? X-variants are two characters with different abstract shapes and different meanings. Y-variants are characters with the same meaning but different abstract shapes. > where can I find more detail reference document about them ? The Unicode Standard, version 3.0, pp. 262-263. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
