John Jenkins > The IRG is attempting to set up a database of existing ideographs using > IDSs (strictly speaking, this is a no-no, but they understand that). > This will help in the analysis of submitted ideographs and speed up the > process of encoding.
At least, IDC would really speed up the work of unification of various repertoire sources and help avoid duplicates. It seems that, even if IDC allows several compositions, a sort of canonical ideographic decomposition (not a NFD or NFKD decomposition!) could be created to match these characters with a precise 2D composition model based on IDC's. Such database would also help the creation of ideographic fonts, by allowing to compose rapidly a first version of a complete Han font with very few glyphs for radicals or strokes (after this automatic step, it could be compared to carefully designed glyphs, to author the font with careful adjustments such as kerning, partial overlays, or small variations of stroke widths/length/angle. This would mean lower costs to develop a functional Han font. In fact the same system could be used as well for Hangul syllables, so that fonts will be able to render more syllables than just the precomposed ones present in the Johab set. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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