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The other thing I wanted to ask about has, sure enough,
disappeared. It's the only Han character I'm following. The
infamous Biang-Biang Noodle character, discussed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles The WP page said it
was scheduled for Extension E (I know it says Extension F now: I
changed it), which has already been passed, so I looked through the
IRG web site and read up on a bunch of discussion tracing its fate. It looks like it *was* in Extension E, but someone noticed that the IDS and glyph were lacking one of the radicals ("heart")—see http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg37/IRGN1779JapanResponse.pdf —so it presumably got bumped off the Extension E list. Then the US/UTC tried to propose it as an Urgently Needed Character, in http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg40/IRGN1936A-R_UTC_UNC.pdf I guess this made it get pulled out of Extension F, because I couldn't find it any of the lists in IRGN1945, not in the proposed list, nor the Withrawn/Unified lists. In http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1974.doc we find responses to IRGN1936, saying things like "let's talk about it at IRG meeting #41." (http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1936_KR1_k2209_1.pdf) Japan corrects the stroke count in http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1936_JPN_feedback.doc but at IRG #41, according to http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1980Resolutions.doc , the group "could not reach a consensus due to questions related to urgency, stability, and technical issues", and it is nowhere in the Resolutions from that meeting, http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg42/IRGN2010Resolutions.pdf . Meanwhile, it still isn't in the lists for Extension F, as far as I can tell: not in F1 (IRGN2017) nor F2 (IRGN2018), if those are different, nor in the Postponed or Withdrawn/Unified lists (at least for F1; I didn't see those for F2). On the other hand, TR#45 still shows it as part of Extension F (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/USourceData.txt , line UTC-00791). So what's the deal? (It isn't like I can read it or anything, I just find myself interested for some reason. Meanwhile, tracking this down has taught me a little bit of how to look things up in a Chinese dictionary, which has always been a mystery to me. Cool.) ~mark |
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