RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@druknet.net.bt)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 14:40:36 EDT


 Richard Cook wrote:

> --A: They are compositionally formed from the 8 trigrams.
>
> Rebuttal: By this reasoning, the 8 trigrams themselves ought not to have
> been encoded, since the 8 trigrams can be generated from simple broken
> and unbroken lines. This alone is not a reason to encode them, but
> it is precedent.

But I thought proposals for characters with decompositions into existing
characters are no longer being accepted.

(Couldn't a ZWJ be used as a way of "joining" two trigrams as a
hexagram?)

- Chris



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