"Benjamin Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Those who wish to disunify Japanese characters from Chinese are basing > > their judgments on glyph differences which are WAY, WAY smaller than the > > differences between Coptic and Greek, or between Phoenician and Hebrew. > > In many cases the difference is no more than a preference for constant > > stroke-width over variable stroke-width. > > > > Sheer pedantry makes me say that while in many cases the difference is > small, in many cases it is very large, so large that many users do not > see the regional variants as the same character. > > > As an added bonus, disunifying Japanese from Chinese would cause > > incredible problems with mapping legacy character sets to and from > > Unicode. > > I agree. It would also cause many other problems -- lucky, then, that it > would be well-nigh impossible anyway. If disunification were ever to be considered, then variation selectors would probably be the best way to disunify the CJKV ideographs at this point. (Not that I am advocating disunification, I don't use the characters myself, so I couldn't care less whether they are unified or not.)
