Yongwei Wu wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Elliot Shank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yongwei Wu wrote:
>> > On 9/14/06, Elliot Shank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Do you mean that none of the following Traditional Chinese fonts
>> > contains the characters you want?
>> >
>> > - Apple LiGothic Medium
>> > - LiHei Pro
>> > - Apple LiSung Light
>> > - BiauKai
>> > - LiSong Pro
>> >
>> > If it is so, it will really surprise me.
>>
>> None of them contain the characters between U+FA70 and U+FAFF.
> 
> Yes, I see. They are really new characters in Unicode 4.0, I think.
> *No* fonts I know have characters in this range. I doubt there is any.

Code2000 has a number of them, but as I said further up this thread, this font 
does not display very well in Vim, or in a bunch of other text editors.  
However WindowServer handles it just fine (i.e. when it is forced to use the 
font in order to display characters in the title bar of a window, it does so 
correctly), as does Terminal.

> BTW, do you really have files that need characters in this range? I
> even have no idea what characters are there, before I downloaded
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.zip, which shows:
> 
> U+FA70    kCompatibilityVariant    U+4E26
> U+FA70    kIRG_KPSource    KP1-341D
> U+FA70    kRSUnicode    1.7
> U+FA71    kCompatibilityVariant    U+51B5
> U+FA71    kIRG_KPSource    KP1-347E
> U+FA71    kRSUnicode    15.5
> U+FA72    kCompatibilityVariant    U+5168
> U+FA72    kIRG_KPSource    KP1-34D0
> U+FA72    kRSUnicode    11.4

I've been looking at the default collation sequence 
(http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCA/latest/allkeys.txt).  This is the order in 
which you should sort Unicode text if you have absolutely no idea of what 
locale to base your ordering on.  Most of the time you've got some idea of how 
a set of people reading a list would expect the items to be sorted, but this is 
the ordering of last resort.

If you restrict yourself to characters representable in 16 bits (i.e. ordinal 
<= U+FFFF), the last ones in the default ordering appear to be characters that 
are somewhere in the U+FA70 and U+FAFF range.  And so, I'm interested in being 
able to display these.

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