At 12:33 -0700 2001-07-02, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>Has anyone proposed the following for inclusion in Unicode? If so,
>what is their status?
>
>Daoist Hexagrams, 64 forms (the trigrams are already included, but
>with no combining mechanism)
You're welcome to, if you have evidence for these.
>The Cangjie "secondary signs", 87 forms for Traditional Chinese,
>plus 6 more to extend the system to Simplified Chinese. All Chinese
>characters can be decomposed into the 24 main Cangjie signs (which
>are common characters) plus these abstract shapes. The signs are
>used extensively, in both illustrations and text, in textbooks on
>Cangjie in Chinese, and recently, in English (Cang Jie Method, by
>Edouard Butler. Taiwan, 2001). Some of the Cangjie secondary signs
>are in Unicode (e.g. a few Korean kwukyel), but not in any
>systematic manner .
Samples?
-- Michael Everson
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