On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> 11 wrote:
> > [...] if you look at the chart for hiragana, you see that
> > they left space for four new kana, just in case somebody
> > decided to invent new kana. [...] I think they're
>
> Both things, I think.
> For new letters, see the yellow squares in:
[snip]
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode32/U32-31F0.pdf
Interesting. Why is the U+31F0 to U+31FF block currently named "Katakana
Phonetic Extensions"?
"Phonetic" seems like unnecessary wordiness--is the standard set of
katakana not "phonetic"?
There also seems to be multiple ways to name an extension/supplement to
an existing block/script:
Basic Latin : Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A,
Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Latin
Extended Additional
Greek : Greek Extended
Kangxi Radicals : CJK Radicals Supplement
Bopomofo : Bopomofo Extended
CJK Unified Ideographs : CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK
Unified Ideographs Extension B
CJK Compatibility Ideographs : CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
Any pattern to this, or is it just historical?
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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