John, I don't see why you are saying that it is a 'no-no'. There is no reason that someone couldn't do something like that.
Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Wittern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 2003 Dec 08 16:55 Subject: Re: Ideographic Description Characters > John Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote: > >>> > >>> Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever > >>> actually used? > >> > > > > 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. > > > > We are using them for this very "no-no" purpose, cf > http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/projects/chise/ > > All the best, > > Christian > > -- > > Christian Wittern > Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University > 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN > >
