On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
> For argument's sake, what are you going to do when I publish the > manuscript copy of a draft edition > of the Kangxi dictionary that I recently purchased in a second-hand > bookstore in London that > includes ten supplementary radicals not found in the printed editions ? > > Realistically, they'd probably go in the CJK Radicals Supplement block. > Given that there's going to be proposals for additional CJK symbols > and punctuation marks in the > future (if no-one else does I've got a few I'll propose), surely it > would be better to simply create > a "CJK Symbols and Punctuation B" block for the proposed IDEOGRAPHIC > TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR. It's > irrelevant that the block will only have one charcacter to start with. > It's got to be better than > poluting other blocks with characters that just don't belong there. > Well, nobody is strongly wedded to the current proposed allocation, to be frank. It can always change. I think the one thing people would hope is that the new character goes somewhere in the neighborhood of other Han characters. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/
