Re: What constitutes "character"?

From: Geoffrey Waigh (anzu@home.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 13:10:52 EST


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:

> What if it is a character where nobody knows for
> sure whether it is a character in its own right or a variant of some
> sort, in orthography, style or whatever?
>
> What is necessary for two signs to constitute different characters in
> cases such as these?

It depends how loudly the national body sings

   Every glyph is sacred,
   every glyph is great.
   If every glyph is not encoded...

As for people wondering about doing Han characters with composition,
aside from the technical issues there are the political -
"Remember the Jamos!"

I'll be glad when the day comes that we can do a Unicode successor
with 16 bits, but we will probably have World Peace first.

Geoffrey



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