At 7:03 AM -0400 7/9/01, Tom Emerson wrote:
>If the goal is to generate an index for the non-CJK user then perhaps
>something similar to Jack Halpern's SKIP index used in his kanji
>dictionaries would be worth considering. For those not familiar with
>it, the basic idea is that characters are classified based on their
>primary structural pattern and the stroke counts in each component. It
>is easier to learn to count strokes than it is to recognize radicals,
>IMHO.
>
>
One of my intermediate goals is to make available indices into the
Unihan data other than the RS one (and the shift-JIS one, for that
matter).
Meanwhile, there are all kinds of handy indexing schemes for Unihan,
and it would be nice to provide the data to use them; the main
problem is that Unicode's resources to generate data like that are
extremely limited. Donations, meanwhile, are welcome.
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