Lest everyone go scrabbling off the deep end and drown on this particular thread, I would like to point out the following facts:
U+2FDF IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR was accepted by the UTC on April 30, 2002. However, when the proposal was taken into WG2 it met a wall of opposition led by China. WG2 did *NOT* accept the character, and it is not a part of the FPDAM 2 currently being ballotted for inclusion in 10646. The UTC will have to deal with this mismatch (along with a number of others) in its upcoming meeting this month. China's clear preference is to simply encode all the taboo variants as separate characters. At the WG2 meeting, they pointed out a number of instances already encoded in Extension B, as you have. And with China not wanting an IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR encoded, many other members of WG2 will defer to their opinion on the topic. This issue clearly needs to be worked further in the IRG context before a consensus will emerge. At any rate, don't consider it a done deal. What matters is what eventually gets published in the final, approved Amendment 2 for ISO/IEC 10646, which *will* match what we publish in Unicode 4.0. --Ken
