On Jun 11, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

It would have been nice if a better mechanism for expressing
Han glyphic (and other types of) variants had been feasible
and in place before CJK Extension B went in, but that is
water under the bridge now. One can only hope that some
restraint and use of alternative mechanisms will be shown
in the current effort to define and encode additional CJK
extensions, which involve even *less* useful characters, for
the most part, missed even by the major dictionary compendia.


FWIW, I was able to give my demo on variation selectors on Han in Chengdu after all, and I think it made the appropriate impression.


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