On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Michael Everson wrote: > At 15:40 +0100 2003-12-14, Stefan Persson wrote: > >Aren't the U+534D and U+5350 only defined for Asian usage, so that > >different code points (which seem not to be defined in the current > >version of the standard) have to be used for ancient European > >purpose? > > All of the characters in the Unicode Standard are for anyone's use.
So would all swastikas be unifiable as U+534D and U+5350? The entry for U+534D in the _Hanyu Da Zidian_, vol. 1, p. 51 (as indicated in unihan.txt) includes a quote that it was originally not a Han character, "wan ben fei zi ...", suggesting that it now is. There are also serifs shown in that dictionary and the _Kangxi Zidian_ for both characters. Couldn't the above two characters be considerd a "CJK" or "IDEOGRAPHIC" version (like the spaces, zero, punctuation, brackets, etc. in the "CJK Symbols and Punctuation" block)? Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
